VISION
Lions Sight Foundation
The Lions Site Foundation was formed in 1952 by the 4 Lions Clubs then serving communities in Clark County (the Vancouver Lions Club, Camas Lions Club, Washougal Lions Club and Ridgefield Lions Club). The Foundation was formed so the Clubs could pool their resources and centralize their sight assistance into a single entity rather than each Lions club handling sight assistance individually.
DONATE Â GLASSES
Seeing a Brighter Future
Perhaps as many as millions of people in developing countries are in dire need of glasses because they are either or both too far from eye care professionals and/or because the costs are more than they could ever hope to accumulate. Great distances have proven to be an obstacle the needy are willing to overcome when there is the promise of regaining vision. In remote areas of the world villagers have traveled days on foot to reach locations where missions have been temporarily set up. The costs however would be more than most recipients make in a year. It is money they and their families desperately need to survive.
In cases where eyesight is very poor a pair of glasses can mean recipients are suddenly employable, or family members will be able to see what their loved ones and their surroundings truly look like for the first time in their lives. Suddenly having clear vision, when there was once no hope, is an experience of such magnitude that its joys cannot be fully expressed except through the looks on patients’ faces when first looking at their new world.