Eyewear Donations Prove Seeing Is Believing ~ Drop Yours Off at the Legion in Turner Valley

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By Todd Curran
In a humanitarian effort by the Lions Club to provide recycled eye wear free of charge to people in developing countries, the Turner Valley Legion is providing a home for the drop box to collect used prescription eyeglasses and sunglasses.
The Lions Eyeglass Recycling Program began in Alberta in 1996, growing from provincial to national to international status. With Lions Club members funding and overseeing the program while collecting and distributing the donated glasses, the Alberta Government supplied a facility for Calgary Correctional Centre volunteer inmates to receive, sort, sanitize, repair, and prepare the glasses for shipping. The highly successful initiative has now recycled and distributed millions of pairs of glasses worldwide.
In a new initiative, Lions Club District 37-0 has partnered with David Campbell of Global Vision 20/20 to provide self adjusting ad-specs glasses that volunteers can take out into the field to correct vision.

The ongoing Eyeglass Recycling Program is a winning trifecta, furnishing people in need with prescription eyewear, the Lions Club making the world a better place through volunteer-driven humanitarian services and offering inmates the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to the global community.
Dust off those old Drew Carey glasses, the 80's ones you purchased from Utilitarian Soviet Eyewear Emporium, and drop them off at the Turner Valley Legion for someone who really needs them.
For more information on the program visit www.clerc.ca.