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Help for Family, Friends and Neighbors

Are you losing your sight? Or perhaps you have a friend or family member who is blind or has low vision? Daily tasks like taking medication, paying bills or reading emails become seemingly impossible hurdles. Where can you turn for help?

Eye-Link Foundation purchases and provides a wide range of assistive/adaptive equipment free of any charges to blind and low vision residents of Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota. We are an all-volunteer 501c3 nonprofit organization whose board members who actively deliver specialized equipment to low and/or no vision grant applicants. Our strength comes from our supporters, an average of 90 cents of every contributed dollar goes to the purchase of this vital assistive equipment.

The newest adaptive technologies perform amazing tasks. There is a wide variety of products specially designed for those who are coping with uncorrectable vision loss. Assistive equipment includes, cameras tethered to large screen monitors that assist reading by powering up font, character and type size, making them readable. People struggling with Macular Degeneration are able to read newspapers, prescriptions, books and routine household mail. Handheld versions can be readily taken on shopping trips to read can and package food labels. This equipment literally scans or takes a picture of a document, person, photograph or an object, and “reads” details to the user.

Eye-Link assistive equipment grant applications are available for residents of North Dakota, Wisconsin and Minnesota on their respective websites. Direct “links” to each state site are shown below. The equipment grant application can be printed and sent via mail or it can be filled out on line. There are no charges or costs involved in the application process, or for any assistive equipment.

Eye-Link does not accepts federal or state money. Our funding comes solely from the generosity of our supporters. We urge you to help bolster our outreach by contributing. Your donation immediately provides help to individuals who are coping with uncorrectable vision loss. Eye-Link delivers “tools of vision” needed to regain daily access to all forms of information.

Jim Justesen
Board Chairman

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HOW YOU CAN HELP

Out of every dollar, 93 cents goes directly to helping your friends, family and neighbors who live with vision loss on a daily basis.

Eye-Link Foundation is helping residents of Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin by delivering badly needed adaptive technologies to residents challenged by irreparable sight loss.

We are an all-volunteer organization whose mission is to provide a wide array of vital, highly specialized adaptive technologies and training to family members, friends and neighbors who are struggling with severe visual impairments.  Adaptive or assistive technologies are hardware and software packages that give “voice” or Braille output to computers, smart phones, classroom note takers, document scanners, bar code and prescription readers, Braillers and more.

Approximately 3% of our population has uncorrectable sight loss!  The current estimate of Blind unemployment in the United States is approximately a whopping 70 percent! Receiving unique equipment from Eye-Link immediately helps recipients restore independence and develop self-sufficiency.

Please make a donation today, to better the lives of people who live with vision loss.

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