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Traveling clinic helps kids with bad eyesight
Providing exams, glasses for those in need
Tanya Fletcher Nov 13, 2010 11:27:38 AM
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - Hundreds of local students with poor eyesight are getting some help from a traveling clinic.  News1130 is taking a closer look at the "Vancouver Vision Van."

It's a 40-foot optical lab on wheels.  Todd Racho helps coordinate the OneSight program, which goes from school to school providing eye exams and brand new glasses to children who need them.  

"It's set up with doctors lanes so when the children come through the van they see the doctor, they go through a comprehensive eye exam and pick out the glasses they like.  We can make those glasses right there in the van and have them on the children that same day."

The van is staffed by local LensCrafters opticians.