Free prescription glasses for indigent students

MANILA, Philippines -  First Metro Investment Corp., the investment banking arm of the Metrobank Group, carries on its vision care project for public school children with the ninth run of Bigay Liwanag.

A project under First Metro’s CSR platform, Bigay Liwanag aims to provide free eye checkups and prescription eyeglasses to indigent vision-impaired public school children to help them read, study, and fare better in school and eventually live a better life.

Since its inception, Bigay Liwanag has benefited nearly 2,500 children. The beneficiaries of the project in the first quarter of 2017 are 88 students from Rafael Palma Elementary School in Manila.

First Metro targets to increase the number of recipients of eyeglasses this year.