Eyeglasses & Hearing Aids
Need Assistance
The Columbia Lions Club offers financial assistance to those in need of eyeglasses and/or hearing aids. Please contact Lion Angie Bruce at 301-854-0094 for furthur information.
Lions Recycle for Sight Program
What would you pay for good vision with a new pair of glasses? A day's wages? A week's? For many people in developing countries, one month's wages will barely cover an eye examÑassuming they can even secure an appointment. Lions have recognized the urgent need for corrective lenses and continue to fight the problem with the Recycle For Sight program.
Recycling a pair of eyeglasses costs as little as 8 cents, and with nearly 37 percent of all clubs participating and almost 30 million glasses collected last year alone, eyeglass recycling is one of LionsÕ clubs most popular activities. Officially adopted by the association in 1994, the collection and donation of used eyeglasses enables many in developing countries to see well for the first time. Costs for an eye exam and new glasses are often prohibitive and the scarcity of qualified eye doctors is another barrier.
The need is still present. As many as 90 percent of adults need glasses by age 40 in order to read. According to the World Health Organization, the vision of one in four people could be improved with a pair of corrective eyeglasses. That equates to 500 million people who could easily have improved vision.
» Lions Recycle For Sight at Lions International
Eyeglass and Hearing Aid Donation Drop-off Locations
Whitten-Perraut Laser Eye Clinic
5999 Harpers Farm Road
Suite W-230
Lasic Plus Vision Center
10025 Governor Warfield Parkway
Suite 103
Dr. Jefferey Golstein Optometrist
10480 Little Patuxent Parkway
Suite G100
Florence Bain Senior Center
5470 Ruth Keaton Way (in Harpers Choice)
Doctor's Vision Works
6250 Columbia Crossing Dr
Suite K (off Dobbin Road)
Vantage House
2nd floor lounge
5400 Vantage Point Road
Johns Hopkins Community Physicians Building
6350 Stevens Forest Road
Essential View Optical
8600 Foundry Street
Savage, MD 20763
(301) 498-2003