• VOSH/International (Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity)
• c/o Dr. Harry Zeltzer (Immediate Past Pres.)
• P.O. Box 209
• Ipswich, MA 01938
• Phone: 978-356-0447
• Fax: 978-365-7173
• E-mail: voshinternational@comcast.net
• Web: www.vosh.org

As "The voice of optometry in developing nations," VOSH has a great network for getting volunteers to overseas places that need eye care and obtaining eyeglasses and various kinds of eye care supplies and equipment.

The "Services and Information" section on its website lists more than a dozen places in the U.S. (plus some in other countries) that provide recycled glasses for little or no cost. Most of these are linked to Lions Clubs, and some have arrangements with prisons whereby trained inmates read prescriptions of donated eyeglasses, clean, and sort them. A group in Upland, IN processed 1 ½ million used eyeglasses last year and charges only ten cents for each pair.

Many VOSH chapters organize overseas eye care mission trips, and they have a "chat room" on their website that also connects places with needs with volunteers.