There is a Vitamin A Deficiency that effects 250 million children a year. This 350,000 children with Vitamin A Deficiency will go blind and half of these children will die within twelve months of losing their sight. Clearly this is a huge epidemic in our world and the founders of Jonas Paul Eye Wear saw this and created a social enterprise.

Ben and Laura Harrison founded Jonas Paul Eye Wear in 2013, using their son as inspiration. Their son was born blind but through a series of twenty-one surgeries, regained a small amount of his vision. Through the process of finding glasses for their son, they realized that there were no fashionable glasses for children. This is the main fuel for Jonas Paul Eye Wear. The couple began designing glasses to help children feel good in their glasses.

In addition to designing fashionable glasses for children, Ben and Laura Harrison also used this company as a platform to assist in the Vitamin A Deficiency. So, the Harrisons decided to partner with Christian Blind Mission (CBM) by donating to CBM every time a frame is sold. CBM promotes foods rich in Vitamin A and provides Vitamin A supplements to two children for a year just from one frame bought from Jonas Paul Eye Wear.

Jonas Paul Eye Wear did a fantastic job of finding a simple problem and relating that simple problem to a larger problem that is happening on a global scale. Ben and Laura Harrison saw their son’s need for fashionable glasses and saw the Vitamin A Deficiency epidemic happening across the globe. In addition to this, Ben and Laura Harrison also show their entrepreneurial spirit through the fact that they quit their stable jobs to establish this company. This proves that connecting something personal with something global and taking big risks can pay off.