{"id":341699,"date":"2026-07-16T03:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/341699\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T03:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:50:16","slug":"kiwanis-donation-helps-visually-impaired-youth-connect-with-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/341699\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiwanis donation helps visually impaired youth connect with the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fort Myers Metro-McGregor Kiwanis, through the David and Donna Batelaan Fund by the Florida Kiwanis Foundation, donated $3,500 to the Lighthouse of SWFL. This donation went to purchase ten Ray-Ban Meta glasses for low-vision and blind teens receiving services through The Lighthouse of SWFL. The impact of the club\u2019s donation also inspired individual club members to donate funds to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridaweekly.com\/articles\/fort-myers-business-business-briefs\/kiwanis-donation-helps-visually-impaired-youth-connect-with-the-world\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[\u2026]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fort Myers Metro-McGregor Kiwanis, through the David and Donna Batelaan Fund by the Florida Kiwanis Foundation, donated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-341699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}