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We will post items here from time to time to keep you informed on what VOSH-Florida is up to. If you have something to report please Contact us.

April 16th, 2008
Photo of the glasses and readers we packed and unpacked and took the pricetags off. They included Max Bruss, Bill Maskell and Charley Byrd O.D from the Belleview Lions and Charlie Covington and his friend Sue Ellen , VOSHers from Sanford. These glasses will be shipped to Peru to the Lions of District H-4 using funds donated by Deland Breakfast Rotary, Orlando East Rotary and the Winter Park Presbyterian Church. maxo 

March 8th, 2008
Thank you Deland Breakfast Rotary!
For supporting us with donations for shipments of glasses, lenses and frames to Peru. These shipments have enabled the Rimac Rotary, the La Molina Lions and the Divino Nino Jesus to provide eyecare to over 15,000 patients each year.

July 28-31, 2007
World's Largest Eyeglass Recycling
VOSH-Florida and The First Lutheran Church of Gainesville setup an eyeglass recycling booth at the National Youth Convention in Orlando. Hundreds of kids came by and helped in the process of cleaning, reading and sorting used eyeglasses. It was a great turnout! Here are the results...
Total eyeglasses collected: 26,350
Total glasses read: 6,900
Recycle was 2,500

Severo Sanchez and the RiMac Rotary of Peru
I met Severo and his friends on a VOSH-Florida mission to Yungay in July of 2003, in the Andes of Peru, . Severo had traveled by bus on a 10 hour trip to join us and help with the examinations. He brought with him several of his recent graduates from his school, Eurohispanol School of Optometry and Science. They paid their own expenses and worked 10 hour days for the opportunity to bring eyecare to this remote and very poor community. Read entire story...

The Need For Optical Labs
About four years ago, those of us involved in the use of recycled glasses noticed an increase in the difficulty of obtaining enough quality recycled glasses, both single vision and flat top bifocals. After discussion with local recyclers and optical labs we determined the problem began with the increase in prescriptions for progressive lenses. Read More....

February 25th, 2007
The following donations have been received for the general fund:
-Sue Rudolph of Winter Park FL donated $130.00 from the sale of some "period" glasses on E-bay.
-Maggie Arkinstall (of England) donated her Ethiopia mission rebate check of $58.67.
-The Winter Park Presbyterian Church in Winter Park has contributed $54.55 as a monthly support amount.
Thanks for the Donations!

February 20th, 2007
Congratulations to Billy Martinez and Lowell Rice on their acceptance to the VOSH/FL Board of Directors. Glad to have you aboard!

January 9th, 2007
VOSH-Florida recently received its first interest check, in the amount of $41.64, as an annual interest payment on the Certificate of Deposit which VOSH-Florida holds in the Nicaraguan microbank SOSTENICA. The microbank and its Nicaraguan investment arm, CEPRODEL, have extended 12,389 small loans among small shopowners, farmers and women going into home businesses in Northern Nicaragua. These borrowers cannot get commercial credit from large banks of Nicaragua. Microloans are the only way these folks have to get a chance to enter the middle class and leave a life of continued poverty. You can read about the work and program of Sostenica on its website, located at http://www.sostenica.org/home.htm

December 24th, 2006
Last month VOSH/FL participated in the Global Market sale at the Winter Park
Presbyterian Church, where we have a table with items for sale that we
collectively pick up while on the various mission trips.

I am happy to report that this year we sold a total of $1137. worth of
items, had a cost of $325. for items purchased, and netted $812. for our
treasury.

Special thanks to John and Carla Gehrig for their efforts in keeping this
project alive with countless manhours and their connection with the church
where we have an excellent rapport with the powers-that-be. And of course, special thanks to the specially selected and highly trained sales team that
kept the inventory moving!!

December 6th, 2006
RiMac Rotary of Peru & Operation Vision, A Must Read!
Severo, Chairman of the project “Operation Vision” in his Rotary Club, and his fellow instructors at the school along with a group of third year students travel long distances to provide eye care missions at the request of Rotary Clubs, Lion Clubs and Church groups. Since 2003 we have worked with Severo and his students on three missions. Most of the students can not afford a basic set of scopes to do exams. Rotary and VOSH working together to bring basic exam equipment to the students upon completion of their training. This will make a hudge impact on the level of eye care in Peru. Read the entire Article by: Max Bruss

November 18th, 2006
Congratulations to Alan Carpenter for being accepted to the VOSH/FL Board of Directors effective 18 November 2006.
Congratulations to the sitting Board of Directors for accepting Alan as a member.

July 28th,2006
Ms. Irene Williamson of Altamonte Springs FL recently made a donation in the amount of $265.00 to VOSH/FL. These funds are dedicated to the a future VOSH/FL African mission. A letter of acknowledgement has been sent to Ms. Williamson, and copied to Alan Carpenter via this eMail.

July 23rd, 2006
VP Operations, Max Bruss and Board Member, Paul Jones attended the reception held by the Deland Breakfast Rotary and were presented with a check for $1,000.00 to be used to ship frames to Severo Sanchez, Rotarian from Lima, Peru. The first shipment of 20,850 frames are on the way with SEKO Worldwide Shipping. The wholesale vale at $10.00 per pair is $208500.00. These frames will be available for VOSH-SOS missions planned for October and May-June of next year. Max Bruss and Nelson Rivera will be assisting Severo with the October mission at Ville El Salvador.

June 9th, 2006
We are keeping our schedule for our quarterly meeting Saturday, June 17th. Chef Paul said there will be more meat to go around.
Some of us will be having lunch at 12:00 at the IHOP located 1124 S. Pine Ave. in Ocala. The meeting will convene at 2:00p at Paul Anderson's house, 1203 SE 49th Ave. Ocala. Call for directions or click the addresses for mapquest.
Paul's cell: 352-207-8970 Max cell: 352-598-0153.

If you plan to eat dinner, bring a dish to pass. Everyone is Welcome to attend.

May 24, 2006
We now have readers up to +6.00. This includes: +1.00 to +3.25 (regular readers) +3.50, +3.75, +4.00, +4.50, +5.00, +5.50 and +6.00. Quanities are limited and they cost up to $2.00 each, but they are most valuable if you don't use bifocals.

May 24, 2006
VOSH-Florida recently donated 600 safety glasses, 600 bifocal readers and 800 recycled frames to Living Faith, a Christian group that does missions in Cuba and the D.R. Wholesale value: $6.000.00

May 12, 2006
Students of Eurohispanol School of Optomery and Science using equipment supplied by VOSH-Florida. They will use the equipment for their clinicals (missions for VOSH-SOS). See More..

May 01, 2006
VOSH-Florida recently donated 1,100 pediatric frames to the VERAS program in Nicaragua. The wholesale value would be $5,500.00. The frames were received by John Gehrig and reside in our storage with Sergio Romero.

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