The Vision of Children Foundation

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https://www.visionofchildren.org/

The Vision of Children is a California organization dedicated to curing hereditary childhood blindness and other vision disorders and to improve the lives of visually impaired children and their families. Besides collecting donations and raising money for research, they also encourage family advocacy and patient registries.

Vision of Children also offers handheld video magnifiers to schools through grants: https://www.visionofchildren.org/helping-families/handheld-video-magnifiers


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