The Student Volunteers for Optometric Service to Humanity (SVOSH) is an organization that provides eye care to developing nations, bringing graduate students in optometry to people who can neither afford nor obtain such care. SVOSH's latest trip was to Honduras, where one volunteer was surprised by the dreary conditions:
"I don't know that I was really expecting to see little cement homes with no doors and bars over the windows and people actually living in them," said Ashley Scheurer, graduate student at the Illinois College of Optometry.
Scheurer said the trip to Hunduras was sobering, especially when she saw "lines of 300 to 400 people lined up in the hot sun in the dirt" to get their eyes examined.
To volunteer with SVOSH and help others in need, visit their website here.
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