San Antonio nonprofit provides rehabilitation services, employment for blind and vision impaired

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The San Antonio Lighthouse for the Blind has been empowering the lives of thousands of people with vision loss.

The nonprofit provides low vision clinics, education, career support, youth and adult programs. It employees about 500 people.Ingram works assembling military helmet straps and makes sure they are perfect.

“I’m very funny about the straps. They’re like my babies and I know how important it is because I have a son in the field doing Navy Seal training,” Ingram, an employee at San Antonio Lighthouse for the Blind, said. The nonprofit started in 1933 and provides rehabilitation services and employment opportunities for the blind and vision impaired.“It allowed me to be part of the community and it also allowed me to keep a job so I can help my family,” Ingram said.“These are pencils, I have to remember numbers and parts for,” Ingram said.“If I can’t see it well enough I will pull out my magnifying glass and verify what I’m seeing and making sure it’s the right item,” Torrez said.

 

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