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The ability to get around n your own, something many pe take for granted.

But those with vision lossw the struggle all too well.

I started losing my vision after my cancer surgery, bt Sites for Hope and Allenton offers a bit of independene for people like Denise Giae of a mass.

Since I can't drive any moe and my husband's, I need transportation all the timd they are a great help and they're very convenient.

Allow our clients to be independent because we getm to doctor appointments.

We get them to the supermat for food.

We can go to the pharmacy o pick up prescription to the bank to do their banking.

It's a service that providd even more help during the t year as the coronaviruses pandemic disrupted many ass of life.

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That's not the only program impacted by Covid their prevention services like fe vision screenings for presl children were placed on ho.

So you have two classes ofs now who are going to be entering preschool or kindergarten who have not d their vision checked.

Our data tells us that onen ten of those children is gg to have a serious vision problem so they run the rik now starting school without that vision problem correc, he says schools interestedn rescheduling their screenis and reach out to sites fore directly.

As for their on site progr, the center serving Lehigh Northampton Monroe County s finding safer ways to leade visually impaired past the pandemic.

We have a support group tht meets every month and I'm usually older that you geta lot of great ideas for PBS.

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