Free Vision Program Brings Life Into Focus For Students

Helen Keller International (HKI) recognizes that eyeglasses are as essential to learning as pen, paper and books. Their innovative ChildSight® program serves at-risk children living in urban and rural poverty in five states across the country by offering free vision screenings and eyeglasses to “bring education into focus™“. ChildSight® overcomes the two biggest barriers to childhood vision care: prohibitive cost and limited access. The objective of this video is to make viewers happy by seeing the smiling faces of the children that HKI’s ChildSight NY program helps.

This video was produced by students of Pace University’s Digital Video Field Production class under the direction of Dr. Maria Luskay, Professor. This class is part of the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences Master of Arts in Media and Communication Arts program. The class was put into production teams to produce videos for HooplaHa as part of their curriculum. This is the second year HooplaHa and Pace has produced videos together. The producers of this video were Shari Bissoondatt, Marilena Coletto, Sashel Marquis-Wedderburn, Jhennifer Moises and Katherine Spina.