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,... 
by Matt Gianino | Mar 12, 2020 | ODG WORLDWIDE
Production manager Franz Salazar, Bolivia, during the bending competition | © Martin Aufmuth Glasses in just 17 minutes Our fastest glasses benders from Bolivia, Malawi, Burkina Faso and India entered the competition. Franz Salazar from Bolivia and Innocent Mugisha... 
by Matt Gianino | Mar 12, 2020 | NEWS
Primary school teacher Viviana (Bolivia) | © Martin Aufmuth CORRECTING SCHOOL WORK AGAIN Viviana Chacolla works as a primary school teacher in Santa Cruz (Bolivia). As a supplement to her low teacher’s salary, she drives a Tuktuk taxi in the afternoon. When... 
by Matt Gianino | Mar 12, 2020 | NEWS
Suzanna on her sewing machine | © Martin Aufmuth FIVE HOURS AWAY FOR GLASSES Suzanna is 74 years old and lives in a small village in the Amazon. She has 15 children, 54 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. When she heard we were coming, Suzanna immediately set...