Post by tomcamp on Feb 29, 2008 12:19:21 GMT -5
Honduras needs your help!
This year we are going to be adding a new computer assisted prescription - eyeglass matching routine to our expanded eye care program. This procedure will allow us to add used glasses to our list of potential solutions for our eye care patients. Thus we will be able first to try to fit a pair of used glasses to a patient needing far vision (and bifocal) glasses. If this fails we will be able to build a pair of the "instant eyeglasses" using an expanded inventory of frames and lenses form InFocus/EyeDeal Eyewear. If we do not have the necessary frames or lenses to build a satisfactory pair of glasses, then we will use our ultimate fall back option of having the glasses built by Zenni Optical and then send them back down with a subsequent team .
The new computer match program is being made available through Kendall Optometry Ministry in Louisville, Kentucky. We are in the process of acquiring a basic seed inventory of 2400 catalogued eyeglasses from KOM and have three teams already committed to using this approach on a trial basis. We would like to expand this initial inventory of glasses with other used glasses that we can collect locally. We then can scan these using an automated lens meter, code them using a bar-coding system and then add them to our inventory. Of course we’d like to get as much of this done as possible before the first container goes down, but we can receive and process glasses basically anytime.
Here is where we need your help. If you have any contact with, or are willing to make contact with, your local Lion’s Club, please solicit any used glasses that they would provide us. In addition, ask your local optometrist or ophthalmologist if they have any used glasses that they are willing to donate. Lastly, if you, your friends or others in your family or church have old used glasses that can be recycled through our expanded eye care clinics, please collect them and send them to us or bring them to the preloading.
God Bless you,
Mary and Hugh Guffey
8088 County Road 22
Waverly, Al. 36879
hjguffey@earthlink.net
Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD.
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.
Painful moments, TRUST GOD.
Every moment, THANK GOD.
This year we are going to be adding a new computer assisted prescription - eyeglass matching routine to our expanded eye care program. This procedure will allow us to add used glasses to our list of potential solutions for our eye care patients. Thus we will be able first to try to fit a pair of used glasses to a patient needing far vision (and bifocal) glasses. If this fails we will be able to build a pair of the "instant eyeglasses" using an expanded inventory of frames and lenses form InFocus/EyeDeal Eyewear. If we do not have the necessary frames or lenses to build a satisfactory pair of glasses, then we will use our ultimate fall back option of having the glasses built by Zenni Optical and then send them back down with a subsequent team .
The new computer match program is being made available through Kendall Optometry Ministry in Louisville, Kentucky. We are in the process of acquiring a basic seed inventory of 2400 catalogued eyeglasses from KOM and have three teams already committed to using this approach on a trial basis. We would like to expand this initial inventory of glasses with other used glasses that we can collect locally. We then can scan these using an automated lens meter, code them using a bar-coding system and then add them to our inventory. Of course we’d like to get as much of this done as possible before the first container goes down, but we can receive and process glasses basically anytime.
Here is where we need your help. If you have any contact with, or are willing to make contact with, your local Lion’s Club, please solicit any used glasses that they would provide us. In addition, ask your local optometrist or ophthalmologist if they have any used glasses that they are willing to donate. Lastly, if you, your friends or others in your family or church have old used glasses that can be recycled through our expanded eye care clinics, please collect them and send them to us or bring them to the preloading.
God Bless you,
Mary and Hugh Guffey
8088 County Road 22
Waverly, Al. 36879
hjguffey@earthlink.net
Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD.
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.
Painful moments, TRUST GOD.
Every moment, THANK GOD.