Give your glasses a second life

Social commitment

Seeing well should not be a privilege. That is why at Óptica Palmanova we collect the glasses you no longer wear, prescription or sunglasses in good condition, to donate them to eye-health projects through charitable recycling programmes.

A volunteer adjusts the temple of a frame for a child sitting in a classroom.
Every frame is adjusted by hand before it is handed over.

How it works

  • Bring your glasses to the shop (Av. de la Playa 12, Palmanova). No appointment needed: just leave them at the counter.
  • We check, clean and sort them by prescription.
  • They go to charitable recycling programmes that get them to people with no access to eye care.
Schoolchildren wait in line in a school yard while a volunteer takes their details at a desk.
Screenings take place in school classrooms and in hospitals.

What you can donate

  • Prescription glasses in good condition (with or without a case).
  • Sunglasses with lenses free of deep scratches.
  • Frames you no longer use, even if a lens is missing.
A woman in a white coat wears a trial frame during her eye test.
A young man looks at an Amsler grid he holds in his hand.

The trial frame, to find the exact prescription; the Amsler grid, to check the central field of vision.

Who we have worked with

Over the years we have worked with these organisations:

  • Fundación Ruta de la Luz
  • Fundación Mamoré
  • Tatu Project
  • ONCE
  • Fundación Indig
  • Fundación Repsol
  • Fundación Coca-Cola
A volunteer in a white coat stands with two neighbours in a school classroom.
Campaigns are run together with partner organisations and with teams from the area.

In the field

Some images from the eye-health campaigns we have taken part in: screenings in schools, trial frames, and frames adjusted one by one.

An optometrist changes a lens in the trial frame worn by an older man.
A girl wearing her glasses stands in the consulting room, beside the chart used to measure visual acuity.
A volunteer and a local optometrist sit in the classroom where they work.
No campaign gets anywhere without the local team.

A small gesture with a double impact: you help those who need it most and keep them out of the bin.

Message us on WhatsApp if you have any questions, or drop by the shop during opening hours (Mon–Fri 10:00–20:00 · Sat 10:00–13:00).