Three Mayan Villages: selecting eyeglasses

The women of Christ Lutheran Church, Woodcliff Lake, NJ, USA, donated a large number of new reading glasses to give away in the Yucatan of Mexico. Some of the staff of Casa Hamaca Guesthouse (www.CasaHamaca.com) and I gave out over 120 pair of reading glasses on April 23, 2010 in three small villages in the Yucatan: Dzitox, Chan X-cail and San Pedro. We spent about two hours in each of the villages letting the people try on varying-strength reading glasses and attempt to read the paper. Many of the people also needed distance lenses but for distance we only had some used (donated) glasses without any idea of what strengths they were. However, some worked and the recipients went away very happy. Especially happy were the young kids who were having trouble learning to read because they needed corrective lens to help them. They went away with very big smiles. If you are interested in philanthropic, volunteer or cultural opportunities in the Yucatan, please contact www.casahamaca.com or denis@casahamaca.com.

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• mexico
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[mexicodenis]

@fvgbe342 I hope that you wrote that tongue in cheek. If not, you really need to get out more. Reading glasses are also used for sewing and other close work. But we usually don't call them sewing glasses in modern English. By the way, in case you missed that class in grade school, Mexicans are Americans. So are Ecuadorans, Peruvians, Argentinans, Hondurans, etc. Believe it or not, people in other countries actually read books... even write them in languages other than English.

[fvgbe342]

I didn't know that foreign people need reading glasses too. I thought only Americans needed reading glasses because of all the reading we had to do growing up.