Vision and Hearing

Yachats Lions assists those in need with Sight and Hearing in partnership with our  Oregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation (OLSHF).

We can assist with eyeglasses If your total monthly income is at or below the 200% poverty level and you do not have vision coverage, you may qualify to be sponsored by your local Lions Club for an eye exam and eyeglasses.

Likewise, we can also assist with hearing aids if your gross household income is at or below 200% of the poverty level AND you have not accessed help from this program for at least 2 years, you may qualify to be sponsored by your local Lions Club for a hearing exam and new hearing aids! This program is for adults – for children needing help with vision or hearing healthcare, please check out our  KEX Kids Fund Program for information on how to access.

Please fill out our Get Help Form to get in touch with your local Lions Club.

We also participate in their annual School Vision Screening (SVS) Program in which members from our club help screen students in Lincoln County Schools and other schools within Lincoln County.

Eyeglass collection boxes are set up at vision providers, pharmacies, retirement homes, and stores throughout Oregon. Lions Club volunteers gather and transport those donations to our warehouse in NW Portland. Various other service organizations such as the Elks, Kiwanis, Northwest Medical Teams and Boy Scouts of America partner with us by coordinating their own collection projects and providing them to us for our mission.

Thanks to our partnership with Central City Concern, local sororities, alumni groups and Lions Clubs, we are able to host these groups to assist in the sorting of the eyeglass donations received. Our volunteers sort out usable eyeglasses to continue their journey in the recycling process.

Since 2002, OLSHF has partnered with Coffee Creek Correctional Facility (CCCF) in Wilsonville, OR to process the eyeglass donations. At CCCF, 30 women adults in custody (who have been accepted into the Paraoptometric Training and Eyeglass Recycling Program) clean, calibrate, repair and sort the eyeglasses. The glasses are then categorized and stored back at the warehouse in NW Portland, ready for sight missions.

LNumerous organizations request specific inventories of “mission ready” eyeglasses from our warehouse for their trips. We distribute thousands of donated eyeglasses each year to sight missions all over the globe including Vietnam, Mexico, Australia, Africa and many other underserved areas of our world.