Used Eyeglass & Hearing Aid

Collection Locations

Forward locations or corrections to:

PDG Bob Hoofnagle, Chief Operations Ocer

Minnesota Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center

321 8th Ave S

Sauk Rapids, MN 56379

E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: (320) 266-1611

• Many emerging countries lack the resources to manufacture quality lenses, and

the cost of importing eyeglasses is far beyond the means of the average citizen.

• Millions fail to reach their economic, educational, and social potential without

access to quality eyeglasses.

• The World Health Organization estimates that the eyesight of one-fourth of

the world’s population can be improved through the use of corrective lenses.

Unfortunately for many, a pair of glasses is both unaordable and inaccessible.

In developing countries, an eye exam costs as much as one month’s wages, and

a single doctor may serve a community of hundreds of thousands of people.

What Are the Lions Doing?

Wisconsin, where volunteers clean, repair, and classify the glasses by

prescription. The facility distributes about 1 million pairs of glasses each year.

Around the World:

• For 80 years, individual Lions clubs and districts have collected old, unwanted

eyeglasses for redistribution to the poor in developing countries.

travel expenses, time, and talent to carefully and professionally dispense

recycled eyeglasses free of charge. Some people in these countries walk 50 miles

because they have heard they might receive free eyeglasses from the Lions.

• It costs fewer than 8 cents to provide glasses to a person in a developing nation.