ALTENBURG LIONS GIVE $600 TO AID EYE FOUNDATION

ALTENBURG -- The Altenburg Lions recently donated $600 to the Missouri Lions Eye Research Foundation.

For almost 20 years, the foundation has worked to improve eye care programs and research in Missouri.

One of the foundation programs is an eye bank, which has allowed 5,500 individuals in Missouri to regain their eye in the last 11 years.

The foundation also actively promotes its glaucoma detection program, which is important because 43,000 Missourians have glaucoma, 22,000 of whom are unaware that they have this irreversible form of blindness.

Eyeglass recycling is another foundation program. Since July of 1989, recycled eyeglasses have been sent to Bali, Columbia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Kenya, Nepal, St. Lucia, Venezuela, the Yucatan, India, Mexico and Brazil.

The foundation has recently instituted an indigent patient care program to aid applicants who are not eligible for state or federal aid.

For more information about the Missouri Lions Eye Research Foundation, call 443-1471 or write: 404 Portland Street, Columbia, Mo., 65201.