NEW Eye Safety Materials for Farmworkers

[Guest guest]

The Rural Women’s Health Project

is looking for input from outreach workers, researchers, clinicians and farmworkers

on their experiences with eye care and eye injury concerns of farmworkers.

We have received a Healthy Vision 2010 grant from the National Eye Institute

to develop supplemental materials to our eye injury prevention series ¡OJO!con

tu vista. This new project is called, ¡OJO! Con tu vista - Part II: Visual

Prevention Resources for Diverse Farmworker Communities. In order to develop

useful materials we are soliciting your input in the development of these

new prevention materials for farmworkers.

We have developed a brief survey and the results will be used to guide us

in the development of three posters addressing eye injury and eye care.

Each of these posters will be produced in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole.

In addition, one pocket informational piece will be produced in each of the

three languages. Materials developed will utilize images of farmworkers

from across the racial, gender and age spectrum. These full-color materials,

when complete, will be downloadable at no cost, or available in print format

for a reasonable price!

Please contact us if you have any questions or would like a copy of the survey.

We hope to have these new materials ready by the end of the year.

Thank You!

Robin Lewy, Rural Women’s Health Project

352-372-1095 voice / 352-338-8211 FAX

rwhp@...

www.rwhp.org

[Guest guest]

I would very much like to be a part of this project. At

our health clinic, we have seen many with eye problems and

quite a few with pterygium. We have been unable to get any

help for those needing surgery. Thanks. Elaine Marshall,

Alabama

On Tue, 20 May 2003 23:21:46 -0400 Robin Lewy

<rwhp@...> wrote:

> The Rural Women's Health Project is looking for input from outreach

> workers, researchers, clinicians and farmworkers on their experiences

> with eye care and eye injury concerns of farmworkers.

>

> We have received a Healthy Vision 2010 grant from the National Eye

> Institute to develop supplemental materials to our eye injury prevention

> series ¡OJO!con tu vista. This new project is called, ¡OJO! Con tu

> vista - Part II: Visual Prevention Resources for Diverse Farmworker

> Communities. In order to develop useful materials we are soliciting your

> input in the development of these new prevention materials for farmworkers.

>

> We have developed a brief survey and the results will be used to guide

> us in the development of three posters addressing eye injury and eye

> care. Each of these posters will be produced in English, Spanish and

> Haitian Creole. In addition, one pocket informational piece will be

> produced in each of the three languages. Materials developed will

> utilize images of farmworkers from across the racial, gender and age

> spectrum. These full-color materials, when complete, will be

> downloadable at no cost, or available in print format for a reasonable

> price!

>

> Please contact us if you have any questions or would like a copy of the

> survey. We hope to have these new materials ready by the end of the year.

>

> Thank You!

> Robin Lewy, Rural Women's Health Project

> 352-372-1095 voice / 352-338-8211 FAX

> rwhp@...

> www.rwhp.org

>

>