Month: February 2018

  • Autorefractor is looking good!

    On Friday at our latest Goggle Works party friends measured and sorted more glasses, and we checked out the new autorefractor — which is working fine! On Wednesday evening, it’s being formally presented to The Raven Trust by Rotary Club of Colchester Trinity. And here is the focimeter gang…

  • Guinea pigs wanted: free eye tests with our new autorefractor!

    As reported in the last post, we’ve been donated an autorefractor by Colchester Trinity Rotary to install in one of the clinics we support in Malawi. This machine automatically tests eyes for problems beyond simple longsightedness. On Friday 23 February, we’ll fire it up, check it and calibrate it by, among other things, testing a…

  • January Goggle Works report

    We had a busy and productive evening on Friday 12th. Thank you to all who came. We boxed up 643 pairs of glasses, all beautifully bagged by the packing teams. Not all those specs were measured on Friday, as many more were made ready thanks to the stalwart team of Caroline, Jill and Emma, who…