Dear PAO,

My organization is planning to conduct charity works for the most neglected members of our society, like the elderly. We plan to visit a remote barangay in one municipality, and distribute rice, reading glasses, and other items to senior citizen residents. A pre-evaluation will be conducted by one of our members on the recipients of the reading glasses. However, during our consultation with a company that sells reading glasses, we were warned that we might violate a law if we distributed reading glasses without a proper examination of the recipients by a registered optometrist. Our mere intention is to help, and we do not want to get into trouble, so we would like to confirm if our plan would indeed be in violation of the law.