ALTENBURG -- The Altenburg Lions Club has donated $600 to the Missouri Lions Eye Research Foundation in Columbia.
The Foundation is the state sight project of the Missouri Lions. Money raised through state Lions Club groups supports the Missouri Lions Eye Tissue Bank, research into the causes and cures of blinding eye diseases, the mobile glaucoma detection programs and eyeglass recycling.
The Missouri Lions Eye Tissue Bank is instrumental in procuring and processing human eye tissue for transplant.
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