Community vision aid collection reaches thousands
AN OPTICIANS’ home-visiting service covering the Alfreton community has collected more than a thousand pairs of glasses for Vision Aid Overseas (VAO) charity, thanks to the generosity of care home staff, residents and their relatives in local care homes.
The Specsavers Healthcall team – part of a visitation service designed to help those who are unable to visit a Specsavers store due to disability – have been distributing VAO recycling boxes to local care homes since December 2015. Thanks to donations of old, unwanted specs from the residents at Morton Grange and Lyncroft Care Home, the team have made a significant donation to the charity.
After the specs have been sent off to VAO, they are recycled and the materials are sold on to support the charity’s ongoing work in developing countries.
‘We’re really proud to be supporting VAO and have been overwhelmed by the support our customers have shown over the past few months,’ says Lisa Wraith, director at Specsavers Healthcall. ‘We visit lots of members of the community who are unable to visit their local store due to age, mental or physical disability, and their support and donations of old specs has been fantastic.’
‘We believe that good eyecare should be available to everyone, and Vision Aid is a wonderful charity which works to make sure it is accessible for those in developing countries.’
Vision Aid Overseas is dedicated to fighting poverty by transforming access to eyecare in developing countries and raises money by selling the materials recycled from old glasses. The process is environmentally friendly and enables the charity to fund its overseas projects. For more information visit www.visionaidoverseas.org
Specsavers Healthcall provides eyecare services at home to those who cannot visit a high street optician unaccompanied due to physical or mental disability. To book a home appointment or for more information, simply phone the team on 0800 198 1135 or visit http://www.specsavers.co.uk/home-eye-tests
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