The Inverell MacIntyre Lions Club have been feverishly raising funds for the Lions NSW-ACT eye care and health care foundations.
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The club has a goal of raising $5000 for as part of the Lions Community Challenge, and they are getting closer to the total.
The Inverell MacIntyre Lions Club recently held a grocery raffle, won by Cherrie Jones, which raised $867 towards the Community Challenge.
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The total raised so far is $4709 from raffles since last October.
The Lions club has now commenced a wood raffle and hope that this will increase the total raised to more than $5000.
"In recent years the foundations have bought a microkeratome for the Lions NSW Eye Bank at a cost of $65,000 which slices corneas laterally so one cornea can provide for five corneal transplants," Bill Sutton from Macintyre Lions said.
He said waiting times for corneal transplants had been reduced dramatically as a result.
Meanwhile, the Lions NSW Eye Bank has been working on the Bio pen which will fill in holes in the surface of the eye.
At the moment the Lions NSW Eye Bank is getting together a Centre of Excellence at a cost of some $2 million as well as training eye surgeons and nursing staff in Myanmar.
They have also helped financially with this.
"Also from the Lions NSW-ACT Save Sight Foundation, Lions provided a Viscum, which is now operational at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPA) in the assistance of eyesight repairs," Mr Sutton said.
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