Vision to help overseas care

The opticians collected more than 1,300 pairs of glasses for Vision Aid Overseas in 2014 and is once again collecting unused frames at the store on Commercial Street.

Customers can get involved in the appeal by dropping their old frames into the in-store collection bin, which will then be donated to Vision Aid Overseas.

Gareth Hart, store director at Brighouse Specsavers, said: “In Britain we are used to having access to excellent eyecare on our high streets but most people in Zambia are not as lucky so it’s important we do what we can to improve eye health there.

“There must be thousands of spare specs lying around in drawers around the country that are no longer of use to their owners. All donations are welcome.”

Specsavers has worked closely with Vision Aid Overseas for the last decade and is continuing to do so. In this time, the opticians has raised more than £800,000 and has collected in excess of 250,000 pairs of glasses.

The money has been put to good use by funding the construction of a school for optometry in Zambia and nine vision centres across the country.