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"In total, Blue in Action hopes to collect about 5,000 glasses to those who need it most, in the 30 collection points provided in the city and districts," the mayor.
People who donate their lenses receive a thank you message and a photograph of the person in need who has received his glasses
The Mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, today participated in the campaign of the Blue NGOs in Action 'Give your old glasses new life', through the donation of lenses used in the collection point of clinical Vista Ircovisión located in Centrofama.
They also collaborated with this initiative the Councillor for Youth and Development Cooperation, Rebeca Perez, the Councillor for Traffic Safety and Civil Protection, Lola Sanchez, and the Councillor for Sports and Health, Felipe Coello.
"Overall, we expect to collect about 5,000 glasses in Murcia, which will be donated to people of Senegal, Morocco and Madagascar, three points where Blue in Action, the local police in Murcia, is making valuable intervention projects in Ophthalmology and Optics" José Ballesta said.
Through this campaign, which will run until the end of the year, anyone who has a goggle used both see sun you no longer use, you can donate through the 30 collection points provided both in the city and districts, " with the assurance that a person in need, whose visual defect match the graduation of the glasses, will receive totally free, "said the mayor.
Clinical Vista Ircovisión collaborate not only in the collection, but also in the preparation and measurement of all lenses as well as donating a sum of money for each of the glasses that get to contribute to the cost of transport to the areas of project intervention.
Specifically, for the year 2016, Blue in Action will carry out a campaign of ophthalmology and optics in the country of Senegal, a campaign of optics in southern Morocco (Sahara) and is working on a construction project of a hospital ophthalmology and optics in the country of Madagascar for next year.
Mobile Hospital 'Ciudad de Murcia'
This campaign is an initiative of the Blue NGOs in Action, in collaboration with the city of Murcia, and which also involved the clinical Vista Ircovisión and Fees Foundation and various opticians and pharmacy in Murcia.
Murcia City Council is also working with mobile hospital 'Ciudad de Murcia' Blue in Action, which is currently in Togo, which has already conducted seven campaigns in Africa.
"There graduations, operations, consultations and treatments are performed and soon returns to Murcia to recondition and continue its humanitarian work in areas of the world that need it most," said the mayor.
A message of thanks from the other side of the world
The Frees Foundation, through an agreement signed with Blue in Action, has developed two applications: one that allows people who have donated their glasses receive a thank you message along with a photograph of the person in need who has received his glasses, and another that allows remote diagnose eye diseases, via a digital photograph with mobile and a special lens.
1,150 cataract surgeries
As part of ophthalmological and optical medical cooperation, Blue in Action is working since 2007 in the countries of Togo, India and South Morocco, I having performed 1,150 cataract surgeries, 150 surgeries pterygium, made the donation of 4,000 glasses 1,500 graduates and sunglasses (use them patients after cataract surgery), 5,980 graduations vision, 9,850 treatments of eye diseases and 18,220 consultations.
Blue in Action is a development NGO, founded in Murcia in 2000, and declared of public utility by the Ministry of Interior.
In these 16 years of work has made a total of 52 cooperation projects in the field of health, dducación, infrastructure construction, etc., in various countries of the African continent and Latin America as well as projects to support collective needy Murcia and numerous awareness campaigns and education for development in the municipality of Murcia.
For more information about the eyewear collection points: www.azulenaccion.com
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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