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Providing Glasses Overseas Who Takes the Glasses Overseas?
New Eyes for the Needy provides recycled prescription eyeglasses, sunglasses, and eyeglass cases to many different organizations and individuals for distribution in developing nations.

Members of Rotary International District 7230 from Ossining, NY packed a truckful of eyeglasses and cases for the Tree-Land Foundation.

Last year, New Eyes distributed eyeglasses through Physicians for Peace, Feed the Children and the Tree-Land Foundation. These international charitable organizations test and inventory glasses from New Eyes and distribute them to the poor in professionally-staffed vision clinics.

Glasses are also distributed through individuals going on service missions throughout the world. For example, Dr. Bob Purnell took 210 pairs of glasses to Kenya; Dr. Judith Simon traveled to Ghana with 1,000 pairs of glasses; and Dr. Sam Kim took 170 pairs of New Eyes glasses to Kazakhstan.

Many service organizations also distribute eyeglasses from New Eyes to the underprivileged. Quinta Terra helps needy children around the world, Friends of Barnabas Foundation sponsors clinics in Honduras, and CAMEO distributes supplies in Jamaica and St. Vincent.





How Our Vision Impacts People

"Thank you so much for the eyeglasses. We have just finished our two weeks in Bolivia. We have treated approximately 1600 patients.... The team of 14 Americans was joined by 12 Bolivians, including 4 Bolivian doctors. We visited an orphanage (89 children) and about 20 villages. Your glasses were very popular to the people of these remote villages. People in Bolivia are reading tonight because of your glasses. Thank you for your generous donation."

Julie Dalachek, Project Helping Hands

 


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