The year 2000 marks the 50th anniversary of Prevent Blindness Indiana and the 20th anniversary of its support group, People of Vision. Every year, for half a century, school children and adults across the state are screened by volunteers to detect problems as simple as needing corrective lenses and as serious as preventing blindness. Children do not know when they cannot see and many times parents do not know either. It's through routine screening in schools that vision problems, undetected in a classroom or at home, are noticed. The screeners inform the child's parents or caregivers and refer them to an eye care professional.
Volunteers then follow up to make certain proper care is being given.
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