Students will be able to aid an eye by buying an edible buckeye today at the South Oval.

A bake sale today and Friday will help fund better health care in Nicaragua. Several Ohio State students are raising money for Project Nicaragua, a nonprofit group dedicated to better eye care in the country. Lauren Cupito, a first-year in biology, will be one of the chefs.

“We’ll have all kinds of stuff,” she said. “And nothing will cost more than fifty cents.”

Students can help Project Nicaragua by helping themselves to fresh baked goods — cookies, cakes, tarts and buckeyes — at the two bake sales, which will both be from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Project Nicaragua is comprised of physicians, medical students and undergraduates. The board of advisers includes physicians both in the United States and Nicaragua.

Proceeds will fund expenses for a Nicaraguan physician coming to OSU. A physician has been identified who will study current techniques to take back to Nicaragua. The doctor will arrive in November and stay at OSU for several weeks.

Stanley Park, a second-year medical school student at OSU, is leading the effort.

“A friend started the Project Nicaragua chapter at UCLA,” Park said. “I started the chapter at UC San Diego, and we’ve applied to start one here at OSU.”

According to the website, Project Nicaragua is “an organization dedicated to the betterment of health care and quality of life for the people of Nicaragua.”

Kathryn Taylor, a second-year in biology, traveled to Nicaragua last summer.

“I was there for 8 days,” she said. “The only eye clinic in the country needs help.”

Park explained one of the goals.

“There is no eye bank in Nicaragua,” he said. “So eye surgeons there are limited in what they can do.”

Therefore, one of the longterm goals of Project Nicaragua is to help establish an eye bank in that country.

Other ways to raise funds for Project Nicaragua are in the works. Lauren Cupito said she hopes to travel to Nicaragua.

“We’re working on a Facebook page,” she said. “Plus, we’re getting donated computers, textbooks in Spanish and other things to take there.”