CHARLOTTE — Life became a little clearer for school-aged children across the region this week. The David and Nicole Tepper Foundation has partnered with Vision to Learn to provide tens of thousands of students in Mecklenburg and Charleston counties with eye care – at no cost to the children or their families.
As blue confetti rained down on gyms in the Carolinas this week, students aged kindergarten to eighth grade looked on in awe, many expressing shock at seeing the details around them for the first time.
“There was one kid over there that had glasses on,” Panthers rookie linebacker Trevin Wallace, on hand for Tuesday’s celebration in his own glasses, shared. “He had them on, kept taking them off, putting them on. He was like, ‘I can see now!’ I was like, that’s amazing, seeing a smile on the kids face when they put the glasses on.”
On Monday and Tuesday of this week, representatives from the Carolina Panthers and Charlotte Football Club, along with Vision to Learn and The Dave and Nicole Tepper Foundation, saw the mission take its first big steps, providing prescription eyeglasses to over 250 students in the Carolinas; over 175 students at Matilda F. Dunston Elementary School in North Charleston, South Carolina and over 80 students at Renaissance West STEAM Academy in Charlotte…