{"id":5753,"date":"2017-11-29T16:57:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T15:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/?p=5753"},"modified":"2023-12-18T17:02:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T16:02:56","slug":"operation-glasses-without-frontiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/en\/operation-glasses-without-frontiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Glasses without Frontiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_auto\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"g-cols wpb_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-2 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column us_custom_432d3f53\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Operation Glasses without Frontiers: let\u2019s help them see better<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Change their sight, change their lives<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Who does not have an old pair of glasses sleeping somewhere in the darkness of a drawer and that are never used?<\/p>\n<p>We propose you to participate in a <a href=\"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/en\/?s=charity&amp;lang=en\">solidarity<\/a> action to recycle your old glasses (reading glasses, eyeglasses or sunglasses) before they become clutter.<\/p>\n<p>You can find all the information about this operation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lunettes-sans-frontiere.fr\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Since 1974, under the impulse of the Father Fran\u00e7ois Marie Meyer, the village of Hirsingue, located at the extreme south of the Haut-Rhin, has become the &#8220;capital of spectacles the Third World&#8221;. Indeed, the association Lunettes sans border recovers, sorts, cleans and ships glasses by parcels, sent by aeroplane in Africa, in Asia, in America in the South and in Europe (Poland, Romania and in France for people from the Quarter World). Thus a some thirty active volunteers work regularly for sorting, cleaning, measuring dioptres, dioptre measurements and write on the glasses, but also to pack and store them. ship near 70,000 pairs of glasses every year.<\/p>\n<p>These pairs of glasses are then sent to competent people in clinics, dispensaries ophthalmology and stations of mission that make it benefit the many visually impaired people by their country. Glasses find here a second life, come from different collections realized as well as in parishes, in schools of the sundgau, but also in the rest from France, Germany, Switzerland and the United States, in Austria. In many of households, pairs of glasses that do not serve more, and would be very useful in countries affected by extreme poverty. This is the case in Africa, where a pair of glasses represents about 6 to 8 months&#8217; salary.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_large\"><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_medium with_line width_50 thick_3 style_solid color_primary align_center\"><div class=\"w-separator-h\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-2 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_auto\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operation Glasses without Frontiers: who does not have an old pair of glasses? 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