Get to know your eyes and how to maintain and regain your power to see with vision educators Elizabeth Abraham and Skydancer.

Elizabeth Abraham is a well-known vision educator based in Toronto. Back in 1989, she decided to reduce her dependence on the contact lenses and glasses she had been wearing for over 30 years. Her extensive interest in vision care has taken her around the world. Co-founder of the Vision Educator Training Institute, she teaches at workshops and conferences around the country.

For one regular visitor to the Youth Services Bureau's downtown Ottawa drop-in centre, it started off as a small problem -- more an annoyance than a real concern. Her mouth piercing had become infected, but alongside the other challenges that came with being homeless -- finding food and shelter, simply surviving-it didn't seem to warrant too much attention. In time, though, that small problem blossomed into a full-scale crisis. A trip to the emergency room led to a long-term hospital stay. The infection had spread and, even after treatment, she still lives with its effects.

Andrea Poncia, an HIV/AIDS educator who works at the bureau, thinks things would have turned out differently if the YSB had an integrated health service in place at the time.