LONDON – British schoolgirl Lowri Moore is just 13, but has achieved a lot in her short life, championing children who, like her, wear glasses.
Her #GlassesOn campaign has, meanwhile, struck a chord with thousands of young people and their parents around the world.The teenager from Nottinghamshire, central England, is urging the body responsible for all new emojis to give people the option to put glasses on them. But she argues many children still resist wearing their glasses for fear of appearing “different or uncool”.
“We are in touch with a professor who works in Botswana to give children glasses and he said that most of the children that get glasses don’t want to wear them for fear of being different and not cool,” said Lowri.