Uniontown, Ohio Lions Club

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The Uniontown Lions Club recycles used eye glasses, both children and adults. We separate by class, clean and read the prescriptions of the eye glasses collected from various counties in our area.
These glasses are recorded with our lensometers, the prescriptions noted and placed in individual plastic see-through bags and packaged in boxes-of lots of 100.
If [...]

Charlie Hall Sun Journal
Christine Turner of Bridgeton was grocery shopping with her three children Wednesday afternoon when she saw the North Carolina Lions Foundation free eye-screening bus in the parking lot of Merci Clinic.
Turner works in a sandwich shop and doesn’t have insurance. Her husband, Christopher, recently started a new job at a retail [...]

NICOLA WILLIAMS – Eastern Courier Auckland New Zealand
Lions clubs have carried out one of the most impressive fundraising efforts Starship hospital has seen.
Bucklands Beach Lions Club member Roger Robinson began the fundraising project by challenging clubs district-wide to contribute $500,000 towards the cost of remodelling the hospital’s oncology ward.
Last week Bucklands Beach and Remuera Lions [...]

OAK BROOK, IL USA, and Geneva – The International Association of Lions Clubs (LCI) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) have joined forces in order to strengthen the essential role volunteers play in preparing for disasters and in responding to emergencies at the community level.
At a ceremony to mark [...]

OAK BROOK, IL USA, April 6, 2009 – More than 100,000 people are homeless and 100 dead following the devastating earthquake centered in the medieval city of L’Anquila, Italy the morning of April 6. The 6.3-magnitude quake occurred 60 miles northeast of Rome. In all, 26 towns and villages were damaged.
Lions throughout Italy are assisting [...]

By Scott Rawdon Buckeye Lake, Ohio – The Lions Club Foundation, including the Millersport Lions Club is raising $80,000 to send the Ohio State School for the Blind Marching Band to march in the 2010 Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California.
Millersport Lion Rondia Sexton said the OSU Blind Marching Band is the only one [...]

Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center handles 500,000 donations annually
BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer
Individuals across the country annually drop about 6 million pairs of glasses into local Lions Clubs’ refurbished mailboxes, but not many donors know where those used spectacles go.
JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Allentown Lions Club President Robert Strovinsky sorts glasses with various prescriptions at the club’s [...]

ScienceDaily (Apr. 7, 2009) — An international team of researchers led by Rodrigo Gonzalez of the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala reports that the transmission of onchocerciasis or river blindness has been broken in Escuintla, Guatemala, one of the largest endemic areas in the Western Hemisphere to date to stop the transmission of the parasitic [...]