A CHARITY is hoping you’ll help it make a spectacle of itself … by donating your old glasses.
Wokingham Lions is collecting unused blinkers which can then be recycled and send to developing countries to help with their eye healthcare.
The national charity has been supporting ocular projects for more than a centry, helping prevent sight loss and helping those whose vision is impaired and cannot see.
This has included funding eye camps to deliver sight saving surgery to remove cataracts or halt the effects of river blindness.
And there is a need for old glasses. The frames and the lenses can be recycled in a scheme called SpecTrek.
When a carload has been collected in Wokingham, the Lions take them to Chichester, where they are sorted before being shipped to Medico France in Le Havre.
From there, they are cleaned and graded, before they are distributed to eye camps in Africa, India and Eastern Europe.
Glasses, including sunglasses, can be left at donation points in Wokingham town centre’s Specsavers, Boots Opticians, Wokingham Library, Wokingham Medical Centre, Finchampstead Surgery, Wokingham Hospital Enquiry Desk, and also at Wokingham Town Hall Information Centre.
They also collect hearing aids that are no longer, along with hearing aid batteries that are still in date.
For more details log on to: www.wokinghamlions.org.uk, or call: 0345 833 7384.
