WARMINSTER Lions Club delivered 5,106 pairs of unwanted glasses to the area collection point in Gillingham recently.
'SpecTrek' was hosted by the Gillingham, Mere and Shaftesbury combined Lions Club at Gillingham Council Offices, where local Lions Clubs in the area brought their unwanted glasses for delivery to Petersfield.
Over 26,300 pairs of glasses were loaded for travel via Petersfield to a specialised centre in France, funded by Lions, where they are cleaned, graded and repacked according to prescription criteria.
They were then shipped to developing countries where families have little or no income and a pair of glasses can cost as much as three months wages to buy, and given to those attending Lions Eye Camp clinics in remote districts, for free, to combat preventable blindness and eye disease.
The majority of the Warminster collection of glasses came from local Specsavers opticians, as well as local collection points including the Warminster Lions Bookshop.
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