Lions Eyeglass Recycling Centers

Our Answer to a Global Need

Lions Eyeglass Recycling Centers (LERCs) are located around the world – in Australia, Canada, France, Italy, South Africa, Spain and the United States.  Glasses collected by local Lions clubs are sent to a regional LERC where Lion volunteers:

• Prepare the glasses for distribution
• Ship large quantities of prepared glasses to humanitarian distribution teams
• Supply Lions permanent clinics with an inventory of prepared glasses

LERC Locations

Lions host 17 Eyeglass Recycling centers in the USA and around the world.

• Recycle for Sight, Australia, Inc.
• Canadian Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center (CLERC)
• Medico Lions Club de France
• Centro Italiano Lions Per La Raccolta Degli Occhiali Usati (Italy)
• Lions Operation BrightSight (Republic of South Africa)
• Spain Eyeglass Recycling Center (Tarragona)

USA

• Aurora Borealis Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center (Alaska)
• Arizona Lions Eyeglass Recycling Terminal, Inc. (A.L.E.R.T.)
• Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation of MD-21 (Arizona)
• Lions in Sight Foundation of California and Nevada
• Indiana Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center
• New Jersey Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center, Inc.
• Oregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation
• Texas Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center
• Virginia Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center
• The Northwest Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center (Washington)
• Wisconsin Lions Foundation Eyeglass Recycling Center

Requesting Eyeglasses for Missions

When requesting quantities of recycled eyeglasses from a LERC for mission use, your organization is responsible for:

• Assuring the LERC that the eyeglasses will be given to needy people at no charge
• Providing shipping instructions
• Paying for the cost of shipping the eyeglasses
• Arranging customs clearance
• Reporting the results of the mission within two weeks of completion (number of people served and number of people fitted with glasses)