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SOSH (Students in Optometric Service to Humanity) at Salus University has been named the first SVOSH Chapter of the Month. SVOSH, the student version of Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity (VOSH), will be highlighting volunteer work provided in both local and international communities by SVOSH chapters. The organization’s primary mission is to bring much needed medical eye care to individuals living in countries with poverty by supporting sustainable eye clinics, optometry schools, and educators in areas lacking sufficient eye care.
SOSH was founded at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry (PCO) in 1969 by student Algernon Phillips who organized the first SOSH mission in 1968. Each year since then, SOSH has been participating in trips to underdeveloped countries to provide vision care and eyeglasses to many people in need – from Africa and the Caribbean to North, Central, and South America. This past August, eighteen students and two doctors from Salus/PCO traveled to Haiti where they examined 1,362 patients over four days in the Cap-Haitien area, and provided over 2,400 pairs glasses/sunglasses, and ophthalmic medications.
