Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation is transforming vision care for Georgians in need.

Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation’s focus is to bring vision services to the 52 Georgia counties (30%), who currently have little or no access to eye care. The greatest barrier continues to be securing volunteer doctors to travel to these vision care deserts. In April 2022, we initiated a 12-month pilot project using tele-optometry technology to address the shortage of doctors. This innovative initiative allows us to travel to rural communities with high-tech equipment that enables a remote optometrist to clearly see the health of patient’s eyes, develop eyeglass prescriptions as well as refer patients for additional follow-up care such as surgery.

Help us reach our year-end goal

To help defray the start-up costs of the tele-optometry vision program, our year-end goal is $200,000. Through the generosity of our donors, we’ve already raised $120,000 and still need $80,000. Stanley Friedman has offered to match up to $40,000. Therefore, we are asking you to make an end of the year gift and help us reach our goal!

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Tele-Optometry Pilot Partner

“The concept of tele-optometry was unknown to Ben Massell Dental Clinic and our patients until April 2022. Ms. Lori Miller from Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation brought the idea of tele-optometry for the patients at Ben Massell Dental Clinic with a lot of enthusiasm and opportunities.

This pilot has impacted the lives of our patients, all low-income uninsured residents of Atlanta, in ways more than one. To begin with, tele-optometry is a convenient way for our patients to seek much-needed eye care, especially for patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension who do not have the means or the finances to seek help otherwise.

Secondly, the patients do not have to travel elsewhere for services. The tele-optometry visits are in house at Ben Massell Dental Clinic. On a number of occasions, accommodations have been made to make sure that their dental and tele-optometry visits are scheduled the same day for ease of travel.

Patients have been more than happy and satisfied with these services. Several patients never had an eye exam before or had been wearing the same glasses for the last couple of years. We, as a team, and the patients, have greatly benefitted by these services.”

- Unnati Bhatt

Public Health & Social Service Manager, Ben Massell Dental Clinic, Atlanta, GA

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