Vision To Learn

One in four kids naturally needs glasses to see the board, read a book, or participate in class; in underserved communities, up to 95% of kids who need glasses do not have them. Millions of students nationwide and 30,000+ children in Los Angeles lack the vision care/glasses they need to succeed in school and life. Vision to Learn (VTL) provides mobile optometric screenings, exams, and glasses for students in need via a scalable clinic program that allows students to receive the vision care without taking time away from the school day.

Every day in LA County, more than 150,000 students go to school without the glasses they need to see the board, read a book, or participate fully in class. VTL brings mobile vision clinics staffed with licensed eye doctors directly to the students, at schools and community centers in underserved communities. Since 2012, VTL has provided more than 1.5 million LA County students with a vision screening, provided180,000 eye exams, and dispensed 140,000 new prescription glasses - all at no out-of-pocket cost to students or their families.

How can students succeed in STEAM if they have poor vision? Though 1 in 4 children naturally need glasses, 95% in underserved areas do not have them, including an estimated 250,000 children in Los Angeles. With 2050 funding, Vision To Learn (VTL) would provide 500 eye exams and 400 prescription glasses for LA children in need. Children in under resourced communities have fallen far behind academically during the pandemic. VTL is a proven intervention to enable them to catch up.

Vision To Learn (VTL) was founded to make sure that every child in America has the glasses he or she needs to succeed in school and in life. About 1 in 4 kids naturally needs glasses. In low-income communities, approximately 95% of kids who need glasses do not have them. VTL seeks to solve this problem affecting over 250,000 students in LA County by bringing a mobile optometric clinic directly to schools and community sites to provide students in low-income communities with vision care: screenings, eye exams and glasses, all free of charge.