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| "Sight Night" involves collecting used eye glasses on your trick or treat route (or on any date you select and notify donors of for pick-up) for donation to Lion's Club. The glasses are then sorted, labeled, and distributed to those in need throughout the world. You can order a kit - or download the things you will need - such as door hangers or flyers to notify those on your trick or treat route the week before Halloween - so people will be prepared for you. Please submit press release during the first week in October. Please send your donations the first week in November. If you miss a submission date - please submit as soon as possible. Please see press release below - just place your name and the name of your town in the [italic]! Let's join together to make a difference!! |
| PRESS RELEASE (NOTE: Please personalize and retype (double-space) the release. Submit to News Editors at Local Newspapers.) For More Information Contact: _____________ Phone: _____________ “SIGHT NIGHT” PLACES FOCUS ON GIVING THIS HALLOWEEN (NAME OF YOUR TOWN OR CITY) Homeschool Kids to Trick-or-Treat for Used Eyeglasses [YOUR CITY, STATE] – This year, some kids will collect more than candy on Halloween. They’ll help Give the Gift of Sight by gathering used eyeglasses while they trick-or-treat in our community. H.E.A.R.T.S. (Homeschoolers Educating, Assisting, & Reaching-out Through Service) is organizing a group to participate in Sight Night on Halloween. The used eyeglasses they collect will be recycled and hand-delivered by LensCrafters and Lions Club volunteers to people in developing countries who can’t afford eyeglasses. Sight Night is part of a national collection drive conducted annually by Give the Gift of Sight, a family of charitable vision care programs sponsored by the LensCrafters Foundation in conjunction with Lions Clubs International. “We hope we’ll collect many donations of glasses on Sight Night. It’s a great way for kids to enjoy both giving and receiving on Halloween,” said [LOCAL SPOKESPERSON NAME], H.E.A.R.T.S. coordinator. “Our efforts will change lives. Some of the people who receive these glasses may not be able to work because of their poor eyesight, and may never have seen their own families’ faces clearly.” “Look for your used eyeglasses and sunglasses in every nook and cranny of your home or place of work,” said [LOCAL SPOKESPERSON]. “Sight Night volunteers may come to your door looking for all types of prescription and non-prescription eyeglasses and sunglasses. Children’s glasses are especially in need, as they are in high demand but in short supply. Whether they are big or small, fashionably ‘in’ or ‘out,’ your glasses could change how someone in a developing country sees the world!” If the “ghouls and boys” don’t make it to your house on Sight Night, have no fear. Used eyeglasses for the program can be dropped off year-round at all LensCrafters stores or Lions clubs. |
| Please click HERE to visit the "Sight Night" website for more detailed information or to order or download your preparation kit. |
| If you participate please do enclose a note with your donations stating that the collection was done (or coordinated) by homeschoolers or "Donation Collection coordinated by: A Homeschool Family with H.E.A.R.T.S. - Homeschoolers Educating, Assisting, & Reaching-out Through Service - www.h-e-a-r-t-s.org" Eyeglasses donated can be brought to your local LensCrafters store. Please click here to locate the store nearest you. |
| Please click here if you would like to report your results on the Sight Night website. And please let us post your results on the H.E.A.R.T.S. bulletin board as well! |