North Central Sight Services recently hosted its “Feast for the Eyes,” as reported in Tuesday’s edition of the Williamsport Sun-Gazette.

The event invites diners to experience a meal blindfolded or with other device that limit eyesight or simulate impaired vision.

“By no means do we think that they’re going to completely understand what it means to live visionless, but we think it’s important to give people experiences because it will help people just to bring awareness to the topic,” Heather Engle, outreach coordinator for North Central, said.

The organization serves about 3,500 people a year, assisting them with independent living skills, assistive technology training and other services.

Among other services, North Central Sight Services provides many area schools and community centers with vision screenings.

In doing so, they provide critical services to our families, friends and neighbors and help our communities be more inclusive. It can be challenging work — work that requires compassion and sensitivity.

The annual event offers a sense of the hard work North Central Sight Services performs to aid visually impaired members of our communities — hard work we believe we all, no matter if blindness or limitations to vision have affected us or our loved ones, should appreciate.