MAY I thank you for your excellent coverage (LET, May 3) of my appeal for old spectacles for some of the world's poorest, yet most grateful, people - those in the Ukraine.

International Aid Trust continues its endless humanitarian work to remember the needs of others and through people's support of goods and money, this can be accomplished.

Thank you to the hundreds of Lancashire people for their old glasses that will give more than 650 people the gift of sight and the donations of money.

DINO CHRISTODOULOU, Yates Fold, Blackburn.

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