A SHOUT OUT goes to Judy Chasin, along with Julie Washurn, from the Brookline Senior Center, for their second donation of eyeglasses, readers, and cheaters! Judy worked with the Senior Center participants and collected and shipped the glasses to us all the way from...
Congratulations to the 2023 Fundraiser Winners! Lucy Gibbs and Mike Roche!! Jennifer Jacobs, Vice President of I Care International, did a great job hosting the raffle drawing with help from Mindy Waite and Mindy's daughter Ava, who drew the winning tickets. Local...
The I Care fundraiser kickoff was held at the Grundy County Fairgrounds in Morris, Illinois on 9/30. Our volunteer students helped with the early 6:00 a.m. setup. The event started at 8:00 and ended at 4:00. It was a great opportunity to see old friends, meet new...
A big THANK YOU goes out to Dr. Carrie Sypherd, friend of I Care International, and her patients and staff for doing a fantastic job collecting used eyeglasses for our I Care inventory. We received two large boxes of cleaned glasses which saves a step in the clinic...
The American Legion in Sheridan, Illinois opened their doors in July for our annual eyeglass sorting. We had 16 people attend and they all came ready to work. They all did a fabulous job! Thank you! Jesse Gutierrez brought along four or five boxes of glasses that he...
The I Care Board of Directors met at the Annual Meeting on May 7 and again on June 13 for the annual discussion on board nominations and the election of officers. Here are the highlights of changes that were made: Please welcome three new additions to the I Care Board...
The American Legion in Sheridan, Illinois will be opening their doors on Saturday, July 22, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. for our eye-glass sorting. Volunteers take the freshly cleaned and neutralized eyeglasses and file them chronologically by power and type (i.e., single...
Pictured above are the recipients of custom lenses from our recent trip to Guatemala that were made here in the U.S. and have been delivered to our patients in Guatemala. While in Guatemala, we fit these patients with suitable frames from our stock of used glasses and...
I am happy to announce that the icareinternational.org website has been updated to include a Store page that offers the 2023 T-Shirt in all sizes in the color shown below from the recent clinic to Guatemala! For those of you interested, if you live local you can...