St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Freeport IL, has a very unique
collection “box” for Freeport Lions Club to collect used eyewear to recycle.
It looks like a wooden paddle with a wire basket fastened
to the lower half, and hangs from one of the church walls in the vestibule by
the church office, and contains a partial biblical quote from St. Matthew,
chapter 11, verse 5, “…the blind receive sight…”
Laura
Diemer, Director of Communications
Aquin Catholic Schools, is also the music and youth coordinator at St. Thomas Aquinas Church. After buying the hanging basket at Hobby Lobby, she drew the words by hand using ink pens.
Church parishioners regularly donate their used eye glasses
and deposit them in the wall hanging.Aquin Catholic Schools, is also the music and youth coordinator at St. Thomas Aquinas Church. After buying the hanging basket at Hobby Lobby, she drew the words by hand using ink pens.
Because
of smaller efforts like this, the Lions of Illinois Foundation located in Sycamore,
Illinois, sorts thousands of pairs of collected eyeglasses to help visually impaired
people around the world.
There are a number of eyeglass collection points around
Freeport, normally in the form of a cardboard box with the Lions Clubs
International symbol on it.
A big THANK YOU, Freeport, for improving the quality of life for
people around the world, and to Lion Roland
Caruso for this article’s research.
Discover more about the Freeport Lions Club online at: http://freeportlionsclub.blogspot.com 
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