Local optometrist Dr. Christina Smith has joined forces with the North Carolina Chapter of Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity, known as VOSH NC, to lead a mission trip to the small country of Grenada at the end of March. VOSH NC is a regional chapter of VOSH International and works to provide vision care to underdeveloped countries around the world.
Smith will be leading a group of 14 people, including her husband, her two sons, Sean and Will German, and the long-time office manager of her practice, Rachel Huehls, to the island located in the Caribbean Sea. The group will spend a week in several locations in Grenada providing much needed care for local residents that would be unlikely to receive it any other way.
“One of the saddest things to me is knowing that there are people out there going blind today from preventable causes,” Smith said.
The group from VOSH NC will plan to help as many people as they can while in Grenada.
“You pretty much just work all day until your equipment batteries have all died and everyone is exhausted because there are always more people coming,”
