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Community Service Bulletin Board
A Bulletin Board to list helpful
causes in our Area.
Looking to
help those in need?
In 1971, a woman named
Caridad Asensio began working with migrant families as a
community health worker for the Palm Beach County school
district. She witnessed the extreme poverty, the lack of
medical and dental care, the substandard housing conditions
and the lack of food and clothing facing these hardworking
families.
Founded in 1989 by Caridad Asensio and Connie Berry, The
Caridad Center provides free medical and dental care to a
large population of agricultural workers, laborers and the
working poor of Palm Beach County through the dedicated work
of more than 500 licensed professional and community
volunteers.
The center is in need
of the following equipment items, if your office has an old
one you would like to donate before the end of the year for
that tax deduction.
Items needed include:
1. Manual projector and screen
2. Exam chair & stand with phoropter
and slit lamp arm
3. Slit lamp and tonometer
To make a Monetary
donation please make your check payable to:
"Caridad Center" and in the Memo Section of the
Check: “eye clinic”. The Center will provide the
appropriate documentation to the donor for a taxable
donation.
The
Center address is:
Caridad Center
Attn:
Suzan Guyette
8645 West Boynton Beach Blvd.
Boynton Beach, FL. 33437
Services for the Blind
Lighthouse for the Blind
of the Palm Beaches
Division of
Blind Services
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Florida Department of Labor
and Employment Security
Florida
Outreach Center for the Blind, Inc.
November is Retinoblastoma awareness month
in Palm Beach County for infants
and toddlers
Click for Important Info.
that every parent should be aware of.
NOTE: Information appearing
in the Community Service Bulletin Board is done
so as a public service community announcement.
The Palm Beach County Ophthalmology Society has no relationship with those listed, nor is this any
form of
an endorsement.
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