The spectacles for Myanmar project has come about through our link with a remarkable lady: traveller and author Judyth Gregory-Smith. Her link with Myanmar dates back to 1987 when she first visited what was then called Burma with her husband Richard. They had planned to return, but sadly Richard died in 2001. Since then Judyth has been a regular visitor to Myanmar, and her travels have given her insights into that country’s rich culture and helped her to overcome her loss. When she goes she takes with her as many pairs of glasses as she can collect. In a recent talk to RCL she described the joy recipients feel when they try on their ‘new’ glasses and see so much more; details and colours that failing eyesight had become unable