One in three Liberians needs vision correction. Most will never get it. Not because solutions don’t exist but because access doesn’t. Glasses can cost up to $200 in a country where most people live on a few dollars a day. The limited vision care that...
Six years after launch, Liberia’s independent program partners with government to expand vision care Every second Thursday in October, the world turns its attention to vision health. This year’s World Sight Day—observed globally on October 9th under the...
Earlier this year, I met Mercy, a woman living in West Point Liberia, a severely under resourced densely populated urban community of about 30,000 people on the edges of the capital Monrovia. Basic services like water and electricity are unavailable to most residents....
Cateura Paraguay – a community of 20,000 people living in a landfill In Cateura, a landfill community outside Paraguay’s capital, more than 20,000 people live and work among mountains of waste. It’s also where children grow up, go to school, and dream of...
When a 27-year-old man walked into a vision screening in Encarnación, Paraguay, he expected a basic eye exam. What he got was life-saving care. When a 27-year-old man walked into a vision screening in Encarnación, Paraguay, he expected a basic eye exam. He had been...
