world countries

Recently the Lions Club of Paris had an eye glass sorting session to go through the glasses that have been collected around Paris in the last 18 months. Members sorted 1340 eyeglasses and 220 pairs of lenses. Currently the Club has eyeglass donation boxes at eight area locations: Rest Acres Pharmacy, Rexall Pharmacy, Bank of Montreal, TD Bank, CIBC, Northville Pharmacy, Community Hub Pharmacy & Paris Pharmacy The donation boxes accept prescription, reading and sunglasses; they also accept lenses not in frames. The packaged glasses are taken to Woodstock to Day & Ross Transport who have partnered with Lions Clubs to ship them to CLERC – Canadian Lions Eyeglass Recycling Centre in Calgary Alberta. CLERC is celebrating its 25th year in providing quality eyeglasses to 3rd world countries. This is a milestone shared by all Lions clubs that have supported CLERC during this time. CLERC is a Lions of Canada initiative that profoundly touches more lives than any other project that Lions do CLERC has placed eyeglasses on 6 3 million faces in 103 countries around the world. It has partnered with Canadian Vision Care on two Optical Teaching Centres. In addition, over the past 8 years, CLERC has kept 992,000 lbs out of landfills allowing the plastic, glass and metal to become viable products.