“Will never take my glasses off.”

My name is Ziad. I’m in the 3rd primary grade. I Live with my mum and dad in Aswan. I go to a nearby school with my best friend Mahmoud. Mahmoud passes by my house every day in the morning and we go to school together. I go to class and usually sit in the back seat I don’t go down and play in the playground every day, but when I do, Mahmoud is always by my side, helping me out. He’s my best friend. I don’t get good grades at school as I don’t really pay attention in the classroom. I rarely look at the board and Mahmoud helps me out with a Lot of my homework. My classmates sometimes are mean to me and bully me. I sometimes bump into them by mistake and they would tell me you are blind. When I go home, Is it alone in my room most of the time. One day. when we arrived at school Mahmoud told me that there was an eye medical caravan in our school. He also told me Gozour Foundation is performing some medical checkups on all the students of our school and that today they’ll be examining us. At first, they had prepared a puppet show for us, advising how to take proper care of our eye health. They also gave us school bags, filed with school materials as well as a soap and a towel. Afterwards. they started performing the examinations. All of my classmates went to get their eyes checked. Soon after. it was my turn, they called my name. I got up and went towards the direction of the doctor: he put some eye drops in my eyes and started Looking at them. He also did some other tests one me. Then, sudden y he stopped and called Miss Omneya our teacher. He started asking her about me and said “he is not supposed to be in this school. He relay should be enrolled in a visual impairment school! The boy is nearly blind!” He told my teacher that I need to sit in the front row until they bring me the proper treatment. I was horrified at that moment, I don’t know why but I felt so ashamed in front of all my classmates. Miss Omneya told him that I am not an attentive student, I don’t do all of my homework and she thought I was just a lazy student, that’s why she kept me sitting at the back. The doctor then asked Miss Omneya to call my parents and ask them to come to school at once. After 2 hours or so, they called me out of my classroom. My mother had arrived and she was sitting with the doctor. She explained to him that at home I always trip and I bump into stuff and that Mahmoud passes by my house every day to take my hand and walk me to school. But, she did not think much of it. He asked me a lot of extensive questions about my eyesight. I replied to all his questions explaining that I can see vague shapes but everything is very blurry and that sometimes I see dark areas. He told her that I was nearly legally blind and that I might completely lose my eyesight if I remain untreated. He explained that I have to get some very powerful glasses or lenses something similar to microscopic eyeglasses, in order to enhance my vision. He clarified to us that my vision will not be clear, only better than before and that I’ll be able to walk on my own, study my lessons and play with my friends.
When our school received the glasses, Mahmoud told me that my glasses looked very different than our friends’. I didn’t want to wear the glasses at first because they looked weird, but as soon as I put them on, I saw better. Everything was clearer to me. I knew that I never want to take off these glasses. He told her that I was nearly legally blind and that I might completely lose my eyesight i f I remain untreated.