Old glasses are being collected from coast to coast to coast in Canada to help conserve sight by providing usable eyeglasses to children and adults throughout the world. Everyone’s efforts count. Lions collect used eyeglasses at various community locations, such as the local library, banks, schools or the optometrist’s office. Lions ship the glasses to the Canadian Lions Eyeglass Recycling Centre in Calgary where the inmates at the Correctional Centre sort, clean and determine the prescription strengths of the glasses. Lions and inmates carefully package the prepared glasses and store them until they are required for eyeglass-dispensing missions to developing nations. At the mission site, trained Lions and eye care specialists perform vision screenings and dispense the appropriate recycled glasses, free of charge, to needy children and adults. Lions collect 30 million used eyeglasses each year. Up to two million are collected in Canada alone. One-hundred percent of public donations to Lions clubs are used for charitable causes. None go for administrative expenses.
Visit www.lionsclubs.org, contact your local Lions Club or mail glasses to Canadian Lions Eyeglass Recycling Centre; P.O. Box 1530 Stn T; Calgary, AB
