Look straight: Haw conducting eye-screening for the students from SRJK (C) Kwang Hwa and SRJK (C) Shih Chung
A TOTAL of 175 pairs of spectacles will be given free to underprivileged pupils from seven primary schools in Bayan Baru, Penang.
The Lions Club International District 308 B2 (Region 1) Penang, which is undertaking the effort, started the ball rolling on Friday, giving 25 pairs of spectacles to pupils from SRJK (C) Kwang Hwa and another 25 pairs to pupils from SRJK (C) Shih Chung.
Another 125 pupils, who will receive the spectacles later, are from SRJK (C) Chung Shan, SJK (C) Keong Hoe, SJK (C) Wen Khai, SJKC Chong Cheng and SJKC Min Sin.
Project co-ordinator and club’s zone four chairman Henry Oh said the club distributed over 500 free spectacles to 12 schools in George Town area last month.
“The objective of the project is to help the poor pupils to get good vision through the free spectacles,” he said.
Nice frame: Fei Yan trying out the free spectacles Sun Life Sdn Bhd had volunteered to provide eye-screening and to partially subsidise the spectacles, he said during the pupils’ eye-screening event at SRJK (C) Kwang Hwa in Sungai Nibong .
Fifty pupils from the school and SRJK (C) Shih Chung attended the event.
Also present was Sun Life Optical owner and opthalmic optician Haw Kim Then.
Shih Chung Year Five pupil Low Fei Yan, who is short-sighted, said she was happy that the club had given her free spectacles.
Kwang Hwa headmistress Tan Peng Sim, 52, said that she was very thankful to the club and to the contributors for giving free spectacles to the students.
Barisan Nasional co-ordinators Datuk Abdul Rahim Saibu (Batu Maung), Wong Mun Hoe (Pantai Jerejak), David Yim (Bayan Baru) and Goh Kheng Sneah (Batu Uban) contributed RM7,000 from their allocations towards the project.
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