Dr. Gerard D’Aversa Dr. Gerard D’Aversa, a partner in Ophthalmic Consultants of Long Island (OCLI) and a resident of Garden City, will travel to Accra Ghana with Unite for Sight, a not-for-profit organization that provides high quality eye care to citizens of impoverished nations. In January 2011, Dr. D’Aversa will leave for Ghana with his daughter Jaclyn D’Aversa, a sophomore at Barnard College. Dr. D’Aversa and Jaclyn will work with an eye clinic in Ghana to screen for eye disease, implement education programs, and coordinate sight-restoring surgery for children and adults. Unite for Sight has sponsored over 30,000 sight restoring surgeries since its inception in 2000.

If you would like to donate to Unite for Sight, please visit www.uniteforsight.org. 100% of your tax-deductible contribution to Unite for Sight will provide sight-restoring eye care to people living in extreme poverty. If you are not in a position to make a monetary donation, OCLI offices in Rockville Centre, Lynbrook, Valley Stream, Stony Brook, Manhasset and East Meadow will also be collecting sunglasses and reading glasses for Dr. D’Aversa and Jaclyn to bring to Ghana. For more information, please visit www.ocli.net.