1 Million GoodVision Glasses

1 Million GoodVision Glasses

This week, our GoodVision community is celebrating a milestone we once only dreamed of: 1,000,000 pairs of eyeglasses delivered to people who otherwise could not see clearly....
Bringing Focus to Forgotten Places

Bringing Focus to Forgotten Places

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...
Age Doesn’t Matter

Age Doesn’t Matter

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...
On The Sunny Island

On The Sunny Island

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...