Man receives gift of sight
The Lions Club of Cowies Hill assisted a young man in need with spectacles.
RECENTLY, the Lions Club of Cowies Hill, together with Visionworks, at Watercrest, and Lions Brightsight – a project of Lions International that provides low-cost prescription spectacles to people – provided spectacles to a young disabled man, Thembisani Ndlovu.
Lions club’s Bronwyn Paijmans said that last year, the optician at Visionworks contacted the Cowies Hill Lions and said they had tested the eyes of a young man who didn’t have the finances to get the required highly specialised prescription spectacles and asked whether the club would be able to help him with spectacles from Lions Brightsight.
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Paijmans said Visionworks collects old spectacles for them to send to Lions Brightsight, which is how they know about the programme.
“We agreed to help and received the prescription, sent it to Brightsight, received the spectacles and handed them over to the very delighted recipient. At the time of the handover, the optician found out that this young man has an identical twin brother with severe sight deficiencies.”
The Lions Club was contacted again and asked about the possibility of providing spectacles for his twin brother who is also disabled.
“The club agreed to assist, and an appointment was made for the young man to be tested and the prescription to be sent to Lions Brightsight. Once the spectacles were received, Thembisani was contacted, and an appointment was made for the spectacles to be fitted by the optician, together with Cowies Hill Lions, Rebecca Bullough and Pat Kirk,” said Paijmans.
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