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Community

With gratitude, we give back to our community and several, more distant, charities and we're always ready to lend a helping hand for the cause of others.

Giving Back

At Glasses To Go we have been fortunate and so we are able to give back to our favorite charitable organizations by volunteering our time, some resources, raising awareness and making donations of gently used and restored, used glasses.  

Many individual, locally and abroad, need he gift of sight and Glasses To Go has tried to make a difference for them.

We have also used our facility as a depot for used items of clothing and appliances or furniture destined to help new immigrants to this country and, of course, our community.

Our first missions abroad

In March 2012, 2014 and 2016 our vision team travelled as part of a medical mission to a rural community Marbial, Haiti (North of Jacmel) .  We were shocked to learn that this beautiful mountainous area's water was contaminated with parasites.  The heat and long line-ups of patients were not something we were prepared for emotionally.  The local's poor living conditions and hopelessness of a better life, often brought me to exhaustion and tears.

We examined over 100 patients daily:  elderly in need of reading glasses, children with presbyopia, many patients with pteryglum, cataracts among young and old due to severe dehydration and rampant pink eye infections.  We also gave out hundreds of safety glasses.  Patients were gracious, waiting hours to be seen and they were grateful for anything that we could do to alleviate their vision issues.

It Is Our Priviledge

At Glasses To Go, we feel truly privileged to play a small part in missions abroad but we also try to help locally by donating at the Bissell Centre in Edmonton and in various Alberta locations such as the Whitefish Kikino Settlement.

A Heartfelt Thank You
We wish to thank all our friends, clients and other supporters of our missions and causes...we couldn't do it without you!

In The Future

Glasses To Go is hopeful of returning to Haiti in the future but for now the missions are on hold due to natural disasters and the civil unrest in the area.  

For more information about ongoing efforts to improve the vision and lives of people that we can help, please email:  glasses2go@shaw.ca

Christine Zacharko is a member of Womanition to support other business women

GIVING PROJECTS ONTO OTHERS

Check out the Deanna Boyden website if you are thinking of doing charitable work.  

The Giving Projects

highlights special charities, projects and opportunities within our community. 

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strathcona county flag
Christine Zacharko supports Girls on Fire
Zacharko truck with boxes of clothing for Ukrain
Christin Zacharko winning the Strathcona County award

Volunteer programs to inspire our young girls to believe in themselves today by building confidence through various programs.

Volunteer to collect, store and distribute clothing and home items for the displaced people from Ukraine that relocated to Sherwood Park and area

Awarded the Strathcona County International Women's Day Award
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