Donate Glasses at New Drop-off Sites

With the help of the St. Mary’s County Department of Public Works and Transportation, the Lions Club is now making it easier than ever to donate used glasses and hearing aids to people in need.

Six convenience centers and the St. Andrew’s Landfill now house collection points for donations. Lions Club International aims to change lives one pair of glasses at a time through its Recycle for Sight program, and the humanitarian group has dozens of official collection points across the US.

Donation boxes can now be found in the shelters where attendants work, with signs to promote the program. The new sites bring the total number of collection points in St. Mary’s County to more than 35.

When glasses are donated to the Lions Club, volunteers collect them from the donation locations and deliver them to regional Lions Eyeglass Recycling Centers, or LERCs. There, volunteer clean them and sort them by prescription strength, then package them. The recycled glasses are distributed to people and organizations all over the world, at no charge. Recycling for Sight accepts donations of prescription and reading glasses, sunglasses, as well as plastic and metal eyeglass frames. Other than glasses, the club also accepts hearing aids. The aids are collected and refurbished if possible.

Prescription glasses are usually replaced every year or two years, so donating the old glasses makes sense and it might be helping a child with reading, an adult with succeeding at work, a senior citizen with maintaining independence; all of these combine to help and provide communities with more opportunities to grow and thrive.

For more information about the Lions Club eyeglass and hearing aid recycling program, visit the Lions Club here or the St. Mary’s County Recycling Program here.

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