glasses drive tally

my lion's club eyeglasses drive has been going on for what seems like years now. (which is exactly why, when you organize a drive, you need to set clear end dates!!) and tho i'm still waiting on a few pairs, yesterday i handed over the ones i've collected. here's my re-cap and tally.

44 pairs total. 23 sunglasses, 20 clear prescription glasses, and one weird pair (that i got when i went for lasik).

when i dropped off the glasses to my lion's club contact, he told me that they had distributed 300,000 pairs in mexico two years ago. seriously. three hundred thousand. that's freaking amazing! i'm not sure if they do just one country every year or if they give to several, but i think it's several because he also said that last year they gave 60,000 pairs to haiti. also awesome!

so a HUGE thanks to everyone to helped with the drive. :)

giving sight

an email that i sent out to some friends regarding an eyeglasses drive i'm doing:

Some of you may know that I recently got lasik, so I've been going through my old contact "equipment" and giving away unused solution, cases, etc. Anyway, I can't exactly give away my old glasses to one of my friends, but I know that someone somewhere can use them, which got me to thinking that I should do another drive.

I've picked the Lions Club because they have a long history of fighting blindness and vision impairment. As for the drive, not only do they take regular glasses, but they also take multi-visions (bifocals and trifocals). They even take on-prescription sunglasses! You don't need to know the prescription, and your glasses can be broken or missing the lenses, it doesn't matter. They will use what they can and recycle the rest. They are in special need of children's glasses, so please dig deep in those closets and find them. They will distribute donations both locally and internationally so you know that someone somewhere will be thanking you!

To get your glasses to me, please just email me in the next week or so and I'll come by and pick them up from you. Thanks for your help!

To learn more about the Lion's Club program:
http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/our-work/sight-programs/eyeglass-recycling/index.php