Uses

Adaptive Eyeglasses will allow development and humanitarian aid programs to incorporate vision correction into their activities.

Adaptive eyeglasses can be used with:

• Adult readers to improve learning
• Correcting populations without access to traditional infrastructure
• Disaster and emergency relief efforts

Experience in the field had shown that adaptive eyeglasses may be distributed and deployed efficiently. Trained laypersons can deploy them and as one size fits most people, teams need to carry much less stock than a more traditional solution.

Adaptive Eyeglasses and the Millennium Development Goals

Adaptive eyeglasses critically support several Millennium Development Goals

	Clear vision is needed for an increasing number of occupations in low income countries and allows people to use new technology like computers and mobile phones.
	Clear vision enhances performance and reduces dropout rates.
	Self adjustable eyeglasses are a new low cost technology to extend vision correction to the poor.