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When you’re six years old, the world can be a wonderful place-if you can see it. Tommy couldn’t. He lived in a world of blurred images. School is tough enough when you’re six. But it’s even worse when your friends are learning to read, and you can’t keep up.
To Tommy, letters were merely blurs; so were baseballs and faces. Because Tommy’s father had long been out of work, glasses were simply out of the question - until this year.
The boy’s glasses were paid for by a volunteer organization hundreds of miles away, called New Eyes for the Needy, Inc., of Short Hills, New Jersey.
New Eyes, as it is familiarly known, has earned the reputation of being one of the most effective sight-saving charities in the world. It has helped many thousands of needy people obtain glasses - here and abroad - and it has never asked for a cent in donations.
Since its inception, almost 40 years ago, New Eyes has asked only for used eyeglasses and precious metal articles such as old watches, jewelry (real, costume and antique), good or damaged silver and dentures.
The eyeglasses and glittering clutter are spent to New Eyes for the Needy, Inc., Short Hills, New Jersey 07078. Thousands of packages from all over the United States arrive in the neat stucco headquarters every year. There, volunteers, mostly housewives, sort out the glasses, separating those in plastic frames from those in metal frames.
Many of the 250 workers have learned to operate complex optical grading and testing equipment. They help fill specific orders from missions and hospitals in foreign countries where plastic framed glasses and sunglasses are sent.
The metal framed glasses have their uses, too. Through refining, they yield precious metals that are sold, along with the jewelry, to finance New Eyes funds in over 100 hospitals and health agencies throughout the United States. The money in these funds buys glasses for people who have nowhere else to tum.
In addition to these funds, arrangements have also been made in 48 states through health and welfare agencies whereby New Eyes purchases glasses foi , carefully screened persons, tc whom no other private or public funds are available.
Last year 8,000 people wen helped under this program Tommy was one of them.
1 But, as public response has 1 grown throughout the years, sc 1 has the volume of requests ‘ Therefore, New Eyes needs mon discarded jewelry and eyeglasses
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