VOSH
Southeast conducts various mini-missions and fund raising events in
communities throughout Florida. Browse through our projects below.
The Team’s
report: Gainesville Community Ministries
Dateline: September 11th, 2004
The first-ever eye clinic was at Gainesville Community Ministries
on September 11, 2004. There were over a dozen members from First
Lutheran Church in Gainesville that ran the clinic along with two OD's. There
were 33 patients seen ranging in age from 13-69.
Glasses dispensed:
16 readers 2
peds 14 womens 7 mens 39 total
The best part
is no one was turned away!
The
next clinic will be December 11th. The other great thing that came
out of this is a relationship FLC is starting to build with the
local Lion's Club in town. They want to 'partner up' with FLC on
cleaning glasses, glasses donations, and possibly working together
to buy new equipment. Both the Lion's Club and Michael, the director,
from GCM thinks this project could possibly qualify for grants through
the United Way to purchase equipment!
The clinic has proven to be a big success. Below are totals of
Patients seen and the number of eyeglasses we dispensed to them.
|
A |
B |
C |
| 1 |
Date |
Patients
Seen |
Glasses
Dispensed |
| 2 |
9/11/04 |
33 |
39 |
| 3 |
12/11/04 |
44 |
40 |
| 4 |
1/7/05 |
38 |
42 |
| 5 |
3/19/05 |
35 |
33 |
| 6 |
6/4/05 |
18 |
19 |
| 7 |
9/18/05 |
25 |
17 |
| 8 |
3/25/06 |
21 |
26 |
| 9 |
6/10/06 |
37 |
44 |
| 10 |
8/19/06 |
37 |
44 |
| 11 |
10/28/06 |
32 |
30 |
| 12 |
1/12/07 |
44 |
39 |
| 13 |
8/19/07 |
24 |
20 |
| 14 |
10/20/07 |
36 |
45 |
| 15 |
1/12/08 |
45 |
43 |
| 16 |
7/12/08 |
37 |
53 |
| 17 |
9/13/08 |
20 |
26 |
| 18 |
2/28/09 |
46 |
52 |
Eyeglass
Recycling
Many of the eyeglasses used on VOSH mission trips are recycled eyeglasses.
First Lutheran Church in Gainesville, Florida hosts a monthly recycling
clinic. All glasses recycled at this location are used for local
clinics at Gainesville Community Ministries and for bi-annual mission
trips to Nicaragua. For more information on how to get involved
in these recycling clinics, contact Suzy Bamberg, VOSH Director,
at suzybamberg@voshsoutheast.org
Workstation including wiping down cleaned glasses and reading
station where glasses prescriptions are read with an lensometer.
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Dana sorting recycled glasses, getting ready to box them up
by prescription strength.
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Judy and Dick filing glasses in boxes. All glasses are sorted
by mens, womens, and children's. They are boxed up according
to prescription strength.
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