An Australian trade delegation led by Blacktown City Mayor Stephen Bali on Tuesday visited the Indian Vision Institute project here.
The Trade Mission India, comprising 16 business and civic delegates from Western Sydney, visited the Chennai Higher Secondary School and distributed spectacles to students with refractive impairment, a release from IVI said.
It also discussed health care programmes for people in need.
According to the release, IVI is an "independent, not-for-profit registered trust" focused on supporting and promoting eye health awareness, research, education and technological development in Indian Optometry to advance capacity in vision correction, and prevention of eye disease.
As part of IVI's "Eye See and I Learn program," about 120 students from the school at Guindy received free spectacles, it said.
IVI CEO Vinod Daniel was quoted as saying that the organisation has launched a campaign to vision screen 50,000 children in Tamil Nadu's tribal schools.