Staff help Russian children

EMPLOYEES at a Waterford-based multinational plant have donated money from their weekly pay packets to help visually impaired Russian children.

Bausch & Lomb employees have welcomed 26 visually impaired children from the Vasilivichi orphanage as they begin their annual three-week holiday in Waterford for the ninth year running.

Employees at the eye-care facility have so far contributed more than €300,000 to help the blind and visually impaired children in Vasilivichi, close to the Chernobyl exclusion zone.