Reading glasses for Kenya

5,000 miles to get some reading glasses and that is a reality; how do you deal with poor eyesight when you live in a remote area of the world? A local business man, Jeremy Heynes of Barracloughs in Bexhill, has the answer and has been sending Ready Reader spectacles to a remote region in Kenya for the past 12 years. Jeremy became involved through his contacts with the Yellowmen of Kadongdong, the Rotary Club of Senlac’s own charity, which has been working in northern Kenya for the past 23 years. Becoming aware of the lack of spectacles in West Pokot he used his contacts to put together boxes of reading spectacle to be taken by the Yellowmen and dispensed in local schools and clinics. As a result, not only are children able to see to read, but eye awareness has led to support from the local clinics now also supported by the Yellowmen..

For the tribes people living in the remote regions of West Pokot, they have no idea of where the UK is, let alone where Bexhill is, but they certainly know of a very good man who sends them reading spectacles and has done for so many years.