Essilor Canada creates
Eyezen Scholarship
Program
Essilor Canada has announced
a new initiative aimed at helping
students with a visual impairment
to continue their post-secondary
education.
Starting this month, a portion of
the proceeds from every Eyezen
lens sold in Canada will be donated
to the En Vue Foundation, which
will use the money to donate up to
five Prodigi Connect devices each
year to students living with a
visual impairment.
Essilor Canada says the Eyezen
Scholarship Program has been
developed in collaboration with
HumanWare and the En Vue
Foundation.
“Eyezen lenses are designed to
relax and protect the eyes of young
adults even when they use digital
screens for long periods of time.
Today’s young people, whether
they have perfect vision or a visual
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limitation, are hyper-connected:
the smart phone or laptop is never
far away,” says Jean-François
Lacasse, vice-president marketing
and business development at Essilor
Canada. “That’s why we chose
Eyezen lenses to propel this
scholarship program.”
Essilor Canada says about five million
Canadians need vision correction
and do not have it, which impacts
their lives, their ability to learn
and to succeed. Essilor’s mission,
in Canada and throughout the
world, is to “improvelive s by
improving sight.
“It translates into everything we
do, every day. Our goal is to elimi-
nate poor vision in all its forms
because we believe that everyone
has the right to good vision.”
The Prodigi Connect by Human-
Ware is a highly portable, connected
digital magnifier with tablet.