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Representative Nguyen backs Friends for Sight request to expand no-cost school vision care
Summary
Friends for Sight asked the Social Services Appropriations subcommittee for funds to expand free vision screenings, on-site eye exams and glasses for uninsured students across Utah, citing more than 61,000 screenings in 500 schools last year and a goal to reach rural areas.
Representative Nguyen introduced Friends for Sight to the committee as her sole request for appropriations this year and emphasized the nonprofit’s long history of school-based vision work. "This is the only RFA that I have put in this this year because I believe so much in what they are doing," she said.
Jamie Justice, executive director of Friends for Sight, told the committee the organization has provided no-cost vision…
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