Every few years the average person needs new spectacles because as we age our eyesight changes. When we get these new glasses the old pair of spectacles gets shoved in a drawer or wardrobe - and forgotten !
The Lions Club of Australia has been collecting unwanted spectacles for years and turning them into a humanitarian project.
Your old glasses end up in a developing country where the prospect of an eye examination and corrective spectacles for the poor is only a dream. Those with sight problems try from the heap of discarded spectacles until they find a pair that corrects their vision problem.
As a result, a new world opens up for many. For the first time they are able to work at jobs where good sight is essential, while for others the gift of sight allows them to get an education - and enter the wonderful world of being able to read.
Here in Wollongong the Lions Club movement has enlisted Hansen and Cole as the drop-off point for unwanted spectacles. Over two thousand pairs have been donated in this city alone, joining half a million collected so far Australia wide.
It makes more sense to put spectacles that have been replaced to better use in the third world then to allow them to sit unused and unloved - gathering dust.
Somewhere - in another part of the world - there is surely somebody with the same sight problem that your old glasses corrected.
This is a Lions Club project that deserves support.
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