Are your glasses broken? Has the doctor prescribed new glasses?

No worries... OPTICA Mbuji-Mayi solves all your problems!

Wend your way through the SIMIS market, where you will find the only optician in the city of two million inhabitants. He’ll make you a pair of first-class spectacles within twenty minutes as long as you bring your own frames and a pair of lenses. Service while you wait! Each work phase of the production can easily be followed.
Let us too follow how a pair of glasses prescribed by Dr. Richard Hardi are prepared in Mbuji Mayi.

Good day! Have you brought lenses and a frame? Take a seat; I shall start working on it straight away.

-I take the frame, and mark the circumference of the grinding onto the lens. -I crop it with a diamond….

-And cut off the extra bit with a pair of pliers…  -Let’s see whether it fits in roughly...

-Now some adjustments with emery paper... -A bit more smoothing...-Fitting it into the frame...-The same procedure on the other side.

-There you are, all finished, 3000 francs.

Ps. If the good man shifts the optical centre of the glasses by a mere 1-2 mm, the spectacles become useless. That’s bad, because "All sales are final. No returns or exchanges accepted."