More glasses are wanted
A business in Woy Woy which has collected over 500 pairs of prescription glasses for Lions Australia's Recycle for Sight program is asking for further donations.
Simplicity Funerals in Woy Woy has asked residents to donate their old glasses as part of World Sight Day.
World Sight Day is an international day of awareness held by the World Health Organisation to focus attention on the issue of avoidable blindness and visual impairment.
The organisation has estimated that 284 million people worldwide are visually impaired, of whom 19 million are children.
The donated glasses are sorted, cleaned and classified by prescription by volunteers in preparation for delivery to the areas where they are needed most.
Media Release, 6 Oct 2011
Sara Elridge, Senior Agency Australia