July 18, 2014
Kingaroy Lions Club member Marj Argue is making a “spectacular” effort to help people all over the world improve their vision.
Twelve months ago Marj took on a special project in Kingaroy to organise the collection of used spectacles for the “Lions Recycle For Sight” scheme.
So far she has collected an amazing 1950 used pairs of glasses.
Marj said South Burnett residents can drop off their used or unwanted glasses at Blooms The Chemist, Pharmacy Essentials, Fitzpatrick Family Optometrist or Malcolm Lee See Optometrist.
Kingaroy State High School students are also collecting glasses for Marj.
She said it was amazing how many people had an old pair of glasses just lying around in a drawer.
With just a little bit of effort these could provide the gift of sight to someone overseas.
Marj packages up the donated glasses and despatches them to a Lions depot in Clontarf in Brisbane where they are cleaned and tested.
The used lenses are graded in lensometer machines and then forwarded to Lions Clubs and humanitarian groups all over the world for distribution.
Last year Australians donated an amazing half a million pairs of glasses to people in Africa, India, Sri Lanka, the Phillipines, Thailand, Moldova, Vanuatu, Papua, Solomon Islands, Fiji, East Timor and the Pacific Rim.
