643 Homeless San Franciscans receive eye glasses!

I wanted to let you know that to date we have been able to provide 643 homeless San Franciscans with prescription eye glasses in 2016!

Without my glasses I can't do anything.  I can't even see well enough to find my glasses in the morning.  Not only did we help 643 individuals see, we also helped countless individuals avoid headaches, to be able to fill out paperwork to improve their quality of life, to see dangers on the sidewalks and streets and to escape the difficulty of life through a good book.

A few of the individuals at our vision events discovered issues that required further medical care and at least one was able to get a life changing surgery in partnership with the Lions Eye Foundation.

In addition to all the great health effects, individuals who are used to hearing "no" got a major "yes."  "Yes," we can get you a free pair of eye glasses.  "Yes," you can pick out whatever pair of frames you like.  "Yes," the fine folk at Project Homeless Connect where you pick up your glasses can help you improve other parts of your life. 

Thank you for helping us say "yes" to 643 homeless people who needed glasses.  Over the next year we plan to continue our "yes" by partnering with others and doing what we can to patch the holes in San Francisco's continuum of care. 

Thank you for saying "yes" to our HandUp campaign!


Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer
Executive Director or Welcome and Pastor of Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church

The total number of individuals who have received glasses though our Homeless Vision Project since October of 2013: 2,530

A huge thank you to St. Paulus Lutheran Church and The Sam Mazza Foundation and the Castro Lions Club for providing major financial support for this project! 

More San Francisco Vision Event Results

We've been so busy helping people get glasses, we haven't had time to keep our posts up today.  Here are the results from our San Francisco vision events:
 

On April 21st at Santa Maria y Martha Lutheran we got 39 pairs of glasses for homeless San Franciscans.

 

On May 8th at Larkin Street Youth Services we got 42 pairs of glasses for homeless San Franciscans.

On May 22nd at Project homeless connect we got 37 pairs of glasses for homeless San Franciscans.

 

On June 5th our phoropters were used at the Project Homeless Connect event accounting for 43 of the exams completed that day for homeless San Franciscans. 

On June 9th at St. Paulus Lutheran Church we got 43 pairs of glasses for homeless San Franciscans.

June 30, at St. Francis Lutheran Church we got 43 pairs of glasses to LGBT homeless San Franciscans

On July 10th at Project Homeless Connect we got 40 pairs of glasses for homeless San Franciscans.

July 31st at the Huckleberry House we got 45 pairs of glasses for homeless youth who are San Franciscans.

August 7th at Project Homeless Connect we got 41 pairs of glasses for homeless San Franciscans.

 August 28th at Larkin Street Youth Services we got 43 pairs of glasses for homeless San Franciscans.

September 11th at Project Homeless Connect we got 33 pairs of glasses for homeless San Franciscans.

PHC 60 at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium provided exams for over 200 homeless individuals.  66 of those exams were conducted using our equipment.

September 30th at Glide Memorial in the Tenderloin, we got 53 pairs of glasses for homeless San Franciscans.

The total number of individuals who have received glasses though our Homeless Vision Project since October of 2013: 1,887

A huge thank you to St. Paulus Lutheran Church and The Sam Mazza Foundation and the Castro Lions Club for providing major financial support for this project!

This weekend Grace Evangelical Lutheran in San Francisco we held another Health and Vision Event in San Francisco and 24 individuals were connected to proscription glasses.

  A big thank you to all the partners and volunteers who made today's event a success, including:

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• Welcome
• St. Paulus Lutheran Church 
• Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church
• Dr. Soss
• Project Homeless Connect
• The Castro Lions Club
• And many others.

This project was made possible because of financial support from St. Paulus Lutheran Church and the Sam Mazza Foundation.

 

Our next event will be held at St. Cyprian's Episcopal/First United Lutheran in San Francisco on May 24th from 10am-3pm at the corner of Turk and Lyon.

Individuals connected to prescription glasses since our project began:349

Kona Vision Event - Saturday, March 29, 2014

The Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity is partnering with Pastor Megan Rohrer from the Welcome Ministry in San Francisco to put on the Kona Vision Event to help homeless people and other low-income people with their vision needs. The event will take place on Saturday, March 29 at the Old Airport Events Pavilion from 9am to 4pm. Dr. Susan Senft and Jenn Brown, staff at Island Eye Care, Inc. will administer free eye exams, and the Welcome Ministry will order free glasses for participants. The glasses will be delivered to the Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity and distributed by its homeless ministry called HERO’s (Help Everyone Regardless of Outcome). A free meal, free blood pressure and diabetes screening, and free haircuts will also be offered during the event. For more information contact the church office at (808) 329-5733 or visit www.konalutheranchurch.com.