How to Donate Your Used Glasses
Your local optometrist may collect your used glasses and sunglasses,
or you may prefer to send them directly to one of the 3 Lions Clubs that do glasses recycling.
or you may prefer to send them directly to one of the 3 Lions Clubs that do glasses recycling.
If you are a spectacle lens manufacturer, frame supplier, or hobby glasses distributor please contact the Secretary on vosocharity@gmail.com
As a guide for optometrists collecting glasses please send only glasses that fit the follwing criteria
As a guide for optometrists collecting glasses please send only glasses that fit the follwing criteria
- Frame- that is fit for wear eg not broken, crooked
- Lenses- coatings intact
- Prescription- Astigmatism no more than 0.75 with or against the rule +/- 20 degrees
- Anisometropia no more than 0.75DS
- Ideally single vision but we do accept bifocals and progressives
- Sunglasses- plano lenses and frame in good working condition, prescription as above
Lions Papakura, AucklandThe Selwyns Homestead
21 Youngs Road Papakura Auckland Contact: Kevin Bromwich T: (09) 298 1414 E: kevinbromwich@xtra.co.nz |
Lions Karori, WellingtonTom Lumb
11A Lewer Street Karori Wellington 6012 T: (04) 934 3372 Mob 021 212 2781 E: jtomlumb@outlook.com |
Lions Cromwell C/- Andy Andrews,
57 Horace Street, Cromwell, 9310 Contact: Andy Andrews T: 021 842 346 E: ajandrews57@gmail.com |