THANK YOU: Wong (left) with children from Salvation Army Kuching Children’s Home who were prescribed spectacles sponsored by him.
LET’S PUT THIS ON: Wong puts on Helen her first pair of spectacles after years of blurred vision.
KUCHING: For eight years, Helen Healer suffered from blurred vision after sand was thrown into her eyes while she was still in kindergarten.
This Christmas, the 13-year-old from Salvation Army Kuching Children’s Home will be able to see clearer with her first pair of spectacles sponsored by an optometrist at Borneo Medical Centre here yesterday.
“My injury was caused when sand was thrown in my eyes and ever since then everything I see is blurred.”
“With this new pair of spectacles, I can see clearer and look forward to reading my favourite books soon,” Helen said.
According to the centre’s optometrist Wong You Chuong, the injury on Helen’s right eye was caused by perforation and to protect her eyes, he prescribed spectacles with premium lens.
“The premium lens is 200 times more powerful than normal lens and doesn’t shatter,” he explained.
Wong also prescribed new spectacles for 10 other children from the Children’s Home as part of his corporate social responsibility to give one pair of spectacles to society with every pair sold at the centre.
“This is the first time we are organising this charitable effort and we look forward to hold it as an annual event from now on,” he said.
Wong added that apart from the 11 children given spectacles, 20 had their eyes examined and were given the all-clear as they did not need spectacles.
“Most of the children who need spectacles suffered from short-sightedness, high myopia and astigmatism,” he noted.