by Matt Gianino | Apr 1, 2020 | NEWS
JANMAJAY MOHAPATRA JANMAJAY MOHAPATRA Award for Janmajai| © Antje Christ Happy With A New Job Janmajay is our recently trained eyewear manufacturer in India. He lost his right leg as a child when he fell out of a tree while playing – a branch pierced his thigh and... 
by Matt Gianino | Mar 29, 2020 | NEWS
Ikaanr Tirkey with his first glasses | © Antje Christ Ikaanr Tirkey: “I can even see the leaves!” Our partner project Care Netram is active in the city of Rourkela, located in the Sundargarh district, north of the Indian state of Odisha. Ikaanr Tirkey, 70... 
by Matt Gianino | Mar 19, 2020 | NEWS
Schoolgirl Burkina Faso | © Martin Aufmuth FIRST GRADER In the Matandani School in Malawi, 220 first graders sit on the floor of their classroom. Their teacher complains, “The children in the first three rows never pay attention, they just look out the... 
by Matt Gianino | Mar 12, 2020 | NEWS
Girlfriends | © Martin Aufmuth LAKE TITICACA Once the cultural life center of the legendary Inca Empire, Sunny Island in Lake Titicaca is still home to around 2,000 people. The lake itself is almost 4,000 meters high and about half the size of Lake Ontario. GLASSES ON... 
by Matt Gianino | Mar 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
Raidas | © Antje Christ RAIDAS BECOMES A PRODUCER OF GLASSES One evening, long after the end of training, we discovered Raidas secretly practicing how to bend glasses. Nobody had shown him how, but the results were actually quite good. Raidas was embarrassed,...