Green Dot New York students, Lori, and Liz.
Liz C. is a mobile response team member and is an Account Manger working within the VSP Field Sales department in our New Jersey regional office. She shares her recent first experience working on board SeeZar at the Green Dot Bronx event in New York.
While I’ve been a part of the Mobile Response Team since it first started about two years ago, I just recently had the opportunity to attend my first event at the Green Dot Public School in NY this week. Having recently moved to the east coast about 8 months ago it was nice to participate in a local event! I was so excited that I couldn’t fall sleep until midnight the night before even though I had to wake up at 5am. I felt a kid waiting to go to Disneyland. After almost a year since I saw SeeZar last, I smiled big as I saw him drive up and we headed off to the GreenDot school located in the Bronx area.
I had the pleasure of meeting and working with two of our VSP doctors, Gwen Gnadt and Dana Getz, who volunteered their time to give eye exams to the high schools kids. We began by staying out of the way but taking lots of pictures as SeeZar was navigated through a tiny 10 foot opening in an iron fence into the school grounds. Our driver, Dave, made it with ease and we parked to start setting up for the kids who are scheduled to start coming around 9am. I learned how to use an auto refractor, how to measure pupil distance for the kids’ lenses and had a great time helping the kids pick out their favorite frames. It was such a wonderful feeling to do something to help these kids who need to see to have the best opportunity to succeed in school. I feel proud to work for a company that believes in giving back to the community and I look forward to my next opportunity to help out!
SeeZar at Green Dot New York in the Bronx.
Way to be the example Liz! It’s great to hear you are enjoying NY and giving back to those who need it. Hello to you from those of us over here in CA, wishing you the best in Q4 and 2010.