Meet Earl of @bettervision

You are never young to dream big

Hello Steemian, today I introduce to you Earl Boadi Appiah, one of our top stemeians for the month. He goes by the username @earlito. Earl is a first year clinical student in Kwame Nkrumah UHniversity of science and technology reading the Doctor of Optometry program. He is one of the great minds behind what @bettervision does especially when it comes to outreach preparation and the actual thing happening.

He also happen to be our media person or better still our editor, most pictures posted from our outreaches and other programs is his doing, for this reason he goes for all health related programs but refuses to be in the pics. His hobbies include swimming, playing computer games and watching movies, in fact lots of movies, from series; Game of Thrones Ultimate Spiderman etc to movies; Avengers infinity war, Mission Impossible fallout, Johnny English 3 etc.

Here is what he use to say to the crew most times to motivate us and get us going;

“The race is not for the swift nor the battle for the strong, the journey of a thousand miles begins with a step, poco a poco we will get there”

What is @bettervision about?

@bettervision is is a project initiated by @nattybongo and friends to give back to the society the knowledge and skill acquired through the Optometric Studies in Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana.It is an outreach system where we visit the less privileged communities to offer free eye screening services and education to the people within the community

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
To reduce or prevent vision loss through diseases such as glaucoma, cataract and refractive errors.

To enlighten the majority of the Ghanaian population about the importance of proper visual care.

To conscientize people on the need for regular eye checks

To get more people to have their wards screened within the Critical periods of a Child’s Vision Development; thus from ages 3 to till about 10 years.

To help the blind and people with low vision live a better life within the society through education of the general public to stop stigmatization.

Our greatest gratitude goes to @fundition @adollaraday @surfyogi @girlsfoundation @bleepcoin @ackza and @wafrica for helping to make the aims and objectives of @bettervision a reality.

This is me @nattybongo reporting for @bettervision. Thanks for stopping by.