Reading 'L-D-P-O-F' off an eye chart is a challenge for Genesis Buenrostro, 17. It isn't her only challenge. “I would rather buy diapers for my kid and get him clothes than worry about glasses,” she said.
Reading"L-D-P-O-F" off an eye chart is a challenge for Genesis Buenrostro, 17. It isn't her only challenge.Genesis is a single mother. Her nearly two-year-old son Luis stays in the Lindsay Community school nursery while she attends high school and, Thursday, while she got her eyes checked.
At the eye clinic in Barrio Logan Thursday, students from four SDCOE community schools were seen. Some of the students were young parents or expecting a baby. Others were part of the juvenile court system. They were all in need of help with their vision just like most teenagers.Genesis Buenrostro, 17, with her son Luis outside Lindsay Community School in Barrio Logan, San Diego, Calif., October 20, 2022.
The free eye clinic help has not been available to students since the COVID-19 shut down in March 2020. That means most of them have gone almost three years without an eye exam or other optical care.
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