Recycle for Sight Australia

 Lions Recycle for Sight Australia is part of the Lions Clubs International Worldwide Eyeglass Recycling Program, headquartered in Queensland and operating throughout Australia and overseas.

We receive requests from humanitarian organizations either traveling to a developing country or supplying shipping container loads of suitable humanitarian aid from Australia to groups in the these countries.

Over the 26 years that the Australian program has operated, the program, has delivered over 7 million pair of refurbished quality spectacles to men, women and children in need  in Africa, Europe, Middle East, Indian Sub- continent, East Asia, and the Far East, China, the countries of the Pacific Rim and Southern Asia and Oceania. In the past 10 years several members of our Marine Branch have been able to use their oceangoing yachts to reach and test villagers, in the remotest areas for eyesight and deliver spectacles to them.

Why we don’t need the cases…

When spectacles arrive, the first step is to use lensometer machines to determine their technical grading. The prescription is recorded on a form, which, along with the graded spectacles, is placed in a sealed clear bag. These bags occupy about 25% of the size of spectacle cases, making them ready for supply to those in need.