{"id":921,"date":"2018-10-07T20:08:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T00:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendsofpae.org\/?p=921"},"modified":"2018-11-06T20:38:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T01:38:04","slug":"vision-for-pae-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendsofpae.org\/vision-for-pae-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Vision for PAE Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portland Adult Education (PAE),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eyecaremedicalgroup\/?fref=mentions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Eyecare Medical Group<\/strong><\/a><strong>, Maine Lions Club and\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fpaeme\/?fref=mentions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Friends of Portland Adult Education<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0provided free vision screenings and eyeglasses to PAE students on Saturday June 23, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 30 adults who do not have health insurance or other resources were screened by volunteer doctors at the Eyecare Medical Group at 53 Sewall St., Portland.\u00a0 Students were able to get free glasses thanks to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/friendsofpae.org\/designated-funds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jane\u2019s Vision Fund<\/a>, established in memory of past\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/yarmouthlions\/?fref=mentions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yarmouth Lions Club \u2022 Maine<\/a>\u00a0president, Jane Cleaves.<\/p>\n<p>PAE provides English and job skills classes to more than 2000 immigrant adult students each year.\u00a0 Vision problems affect about 20% of PAE\u2019s student population.\u00a0 With proper vision, students are able to more quickly acquire English skills needed to participate in the Portland community and find jobs.<\/p>\n<h4><u>Results of Screening 30 students:<\/u><\/h4>\n<p>Readers:\u00a0 9<\/p>\n<p>Eyedrops:\u00a0 6<\/p>\n<p>RX:\u00a0 13<\/p>\n<p>Free Follow Up:\u00a0 1<\/p>\n<p>Cataracts:\u00a0 2 (1 Surgery paid for by Volunteer)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland Adult Education (PAE),\u00a0Eyecare Medical Group, Maine Lions Club and\u00a0Friends of Portland Adult Education\u00a0provided free vision screenings and eyeglasses to PAE students on Saturday June 23, 2018. Approximately 30 adults who do not have health insurance or other resources were screened by volunteer doctors at the Eyecare Medical Group at 53 Sewall St., Portland.\u00a0 Students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofpae.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofpae.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofpae.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofpae.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofpae.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofpae.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofpae.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofpae.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofpae.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofpae.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofpae.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}