Under the leadership of Lion Rick Bailey, a team of Eugene Downtown Lions (Tim Chuey, Judith Grosenick, Ferne Hoffman, Diane Landon, Jim Newton, and Rick Bailey) regularly collect used eyeglasses and hearing aids from approximately 35 sites situated throughout the Eugene area.
Eyeglasses are sent to Portland for sorting and then on to the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility where 20 inmates clean, calibrating and sort the eyeglasses for mission. Eventually the mission-ready eyeglasses are distributed as part of the Lions Health Missions to developing countries. Each year Lions throughout the Multiple District 36 collect between 130,000 and 150,000 eyeglasses.
Hearing aids, once collected, are sent to a refurbisher and then placed in the Oregon Lions Sight and Hearing Foundation's Hearing Aid Bank for future recipients.
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