Building Utah

This is Derek Miller, Speaking on Business. EyeCare4Kids™ has helped 400,000 children in 20 years. Joseph Carbone, founder and president of EyeCare4Kids™, is here to tell us more about how his dream to help children see became a reality. JOSEPH CARBONE EyeCare4Kids™ began in 2001 when my wife and I started a non-profit to provide professional eye care services and free eyeglasses to children who couldn’t afford them. When 9-year-old Santi Morales came to the EyeCare4Kids™ Mobile Vision last week, he became the 400,000th child helped with free eyeglasses. EyeCare4Kids™ helps one child at a time. With each pair of eyeglasses we provide, we truly believe we are offering that child hope, self-esteem vision, and a chance to get an education and become anything he or she wants. EyeCare4Kids™ has clinics in Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and New Jersey. Our renovated Midvale clinic will allow us to help an additional 20,000 children a year in Utah. We are hoping to help 1,000,000 children by 2025 thanks to our “Sight Th