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Welcome to Dr. C Vision Care in Pensacola. Dr. Mary and Charles' team strive to provide the finest in optometry services. We invite you to browse our website to learn more about our optometry services, and invite you to join our patient family by scheduling an eye exam appointment at our Pensacola office.
Our one-on-one approach to optometry makes Dr. Charbonneau and the Dr. C Vision Care staff the eye and vision care providers of choice in the Pensacola area. Our Pensacola optometrist offers the following services: complete eye exams, contact lenses, glasses, glaucoma testing, and pre- and post-operative care. For a complete list of services, visit our services page or call our Pensacola office at (850) 456-2019.
Dr. Mary Charbonneau was born in St. Petersburg, FL as a fifth generation Floridian. She graduated from Wake Forest University in North Carolina with a Bachelors degree in Psychology and Pre-Med. She went on to receive her Doctor of Optometry degree from Nova Southeastern University in Davie, FL. She then completed her residency at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Johnson City, TN through Southern College of Optometry.
Dr. Charles A. Charbonneau is a Board Certified Doctor of Optometry. He grew up in Oscoda, Michigan and attended Ferris State University, graduating in 2004 with his OD degree. He then joined the United States Navy, and served as an officer and Optometrist in Okinawa, Japan, Jacksonville, FL and Rota, Spain.
Most people in DRC have not benefited from this wealth. A long history of conflict, political upheaval and instability, and authoritarian rule have led to a grave, ongoing humanitarian crisis. In addition, there has been forced displacement of populations. These features have not changed significantly since the end of the Congo Wars in 2003.
DRC is among the five poorest nations in the world. In 2021, nearly 64 % of Congolese, just under 60 million people, lived on less than $2.15 a day. About one out of six people living in extreme poverty in SSA lives in DRC.
There are indications that a new social contract may be emerging between the state and its citizens, through the roll-out of free primary education, increased transparency and public sector reforms, and an emphasis on conflict prevention and stabilization in the East.
However, despite conflict prevention and stabilization efforts, pockets of insecurity still persist in the country, particularly in the eastern region. The country is preparing for the next general election which is slated for late 2023. The smooth running of this election could allow the country to continue on the path of political stability and to pursue the necessary reforms to enable most of its people to benefit from the enormous potential that the country abounds.
Economic growth is estimated at 6.1% in 2022, keeping the strong momentum from 2021 (6.2%). Mining sector investment and exports remain the key drivers of growth supported by improved mineral prices and higher public investment. Non-mining sectors (particularly services) are likely to slow down to 4.1% in 2022, from 4.5% in 2021. Higher metal prices are likely to offset higher food and oil prices and lead to improved terms of trade and a balanced current account (from -1.0% in 2021), thereby helping to build up reserves to an estimated 8.3 weeks of imports in 2022, from 6.3 weeks a year earlier, and limiting excessive exchange rate fluctuations. Higher global energy and food prices due to the ongoing war in Ukraine exert upward pressures on domestic inflation lifting the average inflation rate from 9.1% in 2021 to an estimated 9.5% in 2022.
DRC has one of the highest stunting rates in SSA (42% of children under age five), and malnutrition is the underlying cause of almost half of the deaths of children under the age of five. Unlike other African countries, the prevalence of stunting in the DRC has not decreased over the past 20 years. Due to the very high fertility rate, the number of stunted children has increased by 1.5 million.
Access to education has improved considerably over the past two decades, especially for girls and at earlier ages. Between 2000 and 2017, primary net enrollment increased by 50%, from 52 to 78%. However, the quality of education is extremely poor. In terms of learning and achievement, the primary completion rate is only about 67 %, and an estimated 86% of 10-year-olds in DRC are in learning poverty, meaning they cannot read and understand simple text.
In February 2022, the World Bank Board of Executive Directors endorsed a new Democratic Republic of Congo - Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for the period of 2022-2026. The CPF promotes the stabilization and development of DRC, supporting strategic priorities and critical reforms to improve governance and deepen stabilization efforts, in particular in Eastern DRC. The new CPF places a strong emphasis on human development, with a commitment to help DRC improve access to and quality of basic services such as education, health, and social protection.
The CPF and forthcoming engagements supported under the framework will have a strong focus on addressing drivers of fragility, conflict, and violence. There will also be a focus on mitigating impacts from COVID-19 and building resilience to shocks and climate change.
The World Bank Group (WBG) is proposing to engage through large, multi-sector projects that aim to achieve synergies and provide holistic development responses. The WBG will also support reform agendas in a new generation of infrastructure investment projects that aim to bring in the private sector.
Investment operations will focus on two densely populated corridors that are conflict hotspots where many poor people live. This work includes critical infrastructure (roads, energy, connectivity), agriculture, and forestry. To support the implementation of this approach, the World Bank has opened liaison offices in Goma in North Kivu province, and in Kananga in the Kasaï Central province.
The ongoing social protection project is scaling-up the coverage of the social safety net programs. To date, more than 40,000 beneficiaries have been involved in productive economic activities to strengthen their economic autonomy. The unconditional cash transfers implemented in rural areas have been scaled up to 66,000 households, including the roll-out of the program in the North Ubangi province, targeting forcibly displaced populations.
In parallel, an emergency, large-scale, digital cash transfer program was implemented in Kinshasa to mitigate the negative socioeconomic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. STEP-KIN (Solidarité par Transferts Economiques contre la Pauvreté à Kinshasa) was launched in March 2021 and has reached more than 270,000 direct beneficiaries becoming the largest social safety net program in urban areas. The next phase of the program will target an estimated 250,000 people.
Under the World Bank Urban Drinking Water Supply Project (2008-2021), more than 88,000 new private connections and more than 450 community waterpoints were installed in Kinshasa, Lubumbashi, and Matadi, providing drinking water access to over 3 million people.
The Hydromet Project has supported the installation of meteorological equipment in 12 airports to improve forecasting. It has also supported the implementation of a National Framework for Climate Services.
Approved in 2018, DRC Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Prevention and Response Project has reached more than 7 million beneficiaries, including survivors accessing direct holistic services, community members accessing livelihoods and literacy training, beneficiaries receiving dignity kits, community participation in discussion groups, service providers receiving trainings, and communities benefiting from large-scale awareness raising activities. Under the same project, over 42,000 survivors have accessed holistic GBV services (psychosocial, medical, legal, case management) since the start of the project and over 12,000 beneficiaries have participated in community-level economic support interventions. Over 5,000 GBV survivors have received specialized mental health support utilizing Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET). Rigorous impact evaluation of NET, led by the Africa Gender Innovation Lab, found significant mental health improvements from the intervention, including reductions in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and depression, as well as significant increases in self-esteem and local functioning.
In addition to operational engagements on GBV prevention and response through the GBV Project in Eastern DRC, the World Bank is likewise providing significant support to the DRC government regarding the management of project-based risks associated with sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual harassment, such as those measures implemented through the Emergency Equity and System Strengthening in Education project described above.
The ongoing Improved Forested Landscape Management Project helped establish 22,000 hectares of agroforestry plantations on degraded lands in western DRC to provide the city of Kinshasa with more sustainable charcoal and agricultural commodities. The same project also resulted in: 2b1af7f3a8