Optometrists are aiming to collect enough pre-loved specs to measure 80 times the height of Mt Gibraltar's peak above sea level.
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Specsavers Mittagong is on a mission to take on a major global health crisis one pair of glasses at a time.
They have issued a call for Southern Highlanders to help out. In partnership with Lions Recycle for Sight, the store launched a glasses recycling program which sees quality glasses and sunglasses being delivered to people in need overseas.
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In 2018 the initiative sent 334,860 pairs of refurbished spectacles to 20 destinations overseas.
This year they hope to refurbish enough glasses to be placed on the faces of 500,000 people in need.
By 2023 they hope to increase this number to one million pairs per year.
Recent global studies have shown there are 101.2 million people visually impaired because they don't have access to glasses to correct simply vision problems.
According to the World Health Organisation this can have immediate and long term consequences including lost educational and employment opportunities, leading to inter-generational lost economic gain.
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Specsavers Mittagong co-owner Chris Evans said "We're asking the community to clear out their drawers of old glasses as part of their Spring cleaning and put them to good use by donating them to this cause. There are still many people facing major problems in developing communities around the world, simply because they do not have access to glasses."
Once the glasses are collected they are sent to Lions Recycle for Sight in Queensland which runs a glass recycling facility that quality checks, cleans and categorises the glasses.
"People buy new glasses in our store every day and no longer have a use for their old ones. Usually they have been well looked after and are still in perfect condition, but the prescription may be outdated. Our recycling program allows them to donate their pre-loved specs to change someone else's life," Mr Evans said.
Southern Highlanders can support the mission for vision by bringing their pre-loved glasses and sunglasses into the store.