Vision Mission, El Salvador

There was an older man wearing a straw hat in Bajo Lempa, El Salvador. He was brought to the vision team by one of the mental health counselors. He had come to her for depression and it soon became evident that he was depressed because he could no longer work. He was a tailor. He pulled out his crooked, taped up but still hanging by a thread glasses and said he just could no longer see to work. We handed the glasses over to the ophthalmologist who carefully checked the prescription of the lenses. She wrote down the numbers and we looked over the mass of piled glasses on the floor until we found, not a close fit, but one with the exact prescription. We handed the masculine looking pair of glasses to the man who put them on and smiled, and then hugged us.