TEF Provides Vision Support to Bocage Secondary School Students

(Castries, Saint Lucia –Thursday, March 19th 2026)- Thirteen students from the Bocage Secondary School are now better equipped to tackle both school and everyday life after receiving much-needed vision support.

From January to February, these students were among several Saint Lucians assessed by medical professionals during the Kids Insight Medical Mission, where vision challenges were identified and corrective eyewear prescribed. On Wednesday, 18th March 2026, officials from the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) made a special visit to the school to present new pairs of glasses to the eager students.

Brandon Abraham, a fifth-form student, shared how vision difficulties sometimes made even simple tasks, like sitting through exams, a real challenge. “It started when I started feeling my eyes started troubling me, started scratching, started watering. There was once when I was writing an exam and then I just started seeing blurry and I was like, ‘what’s going on with my eyes?’ Then after a while it started itching and started to hurt. God has blessed me with this new pair of glasses to see again, to see well.”

Technical Officer for Community Projects, Tamara Amos, noted that the donation reflects the TEF’s dedication to empowering young people. “We are happy to be here today to deliver the glasses to the well-deserving students of the Bocage Secondary School. This falls under the Kids Insight programme which was held in February. A number of children islandwide were able to benefit from such a programme. The TEF is really happy and elated to be part of such a wonderful initiative.”

Cuthbert Elizee, Principal of Bocage Secondary School, was elated for the visit, recognizing the difference this initiative will make. “We know that those glasses are going to go a long way in enhancing the students’ learning. We know over the years the students have been doing poorly, and it is not because they are not intelligent and they are not bright. But their vision has been impacted and as a matter of fact, they are unable to see, to be able to read, to be able to write and do their tests and so on. I think there are three Form Five students, and today being the 18th of March, I know they will be using those glasses for their CXC exams that are beginning very soon.”

Elizee thanked the TEF for investing in the students’ future. “Thank you! I don’t think words can adequately say how we feel about the support that we are receiving for our children. Thank you once again and may God bless this team!”