Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Honoree
2019
Founder & CEO
Mobile Vision Care Clinic Inc.
Sean Sylvestre is a community builder and social entrepreneur. He graduated from River College’s Business Administration Program in 2003. Immediately, after college, Sean became a licensed optician and joined his family’s optical business where he was instrumental in the company’s growth and eventual sale to a local group of Optometrists in 2008. In 2016, Sean was approached by the Winnipeg School Division to create a mobile vision care clinic that could provide comprehensive eye examinations and dispense prescription eyeglasses directly on-site at various school locations. Since the program began in 2016, the Winnipeg School Division has reported improvements in student attendance, behaviour as well as an average literacy gain of 1.4 grade levels by the end of the school year for those students receiving eyeglasses. Moving forward, Sean hopes to expand the program with the goal of eliminating poor vision as a barrier to education for all students across Canada.
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