Recycle for Sight Australia

A simple pair of glasses can be life-changing. Clear vision can mean the ability to read, learn, work, or regain independence. In areas where eye examinations and prescription lenses are financially out of reach, preloved glasses provide an immediate and practical solution. Since 1998, close to 19 million pair of spectacles have been refurbished by the Lions Recycle for Sight Programme in Australia. We receive requests from humanitarian organisations either travelling to a developing country or supplying shipping container loads of suitable humanitarian aid from Australia to groups in the these countries. Donated glasses have helped people in need in Africa, Europe, Middle East, Indian Sub- continent, East Asia, and the Far East, China, the countries of the Pacific Rim and Southern Asia and Oceania. In the past 10 years several members of our Marine Branch have been able to use their oceangoing yachts to reach and test villagers, in the remotest areas for eyesight and deliver spectacles to them.