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MOSOKA FALLAH

MOSOKA FALLAH

Mosoka Fallah Mosoka Fallah, Founder of Refugee Place International As a child, Mosoka Fallah was a promising student who loved books and learning. Yet from an early age, he squinted to see the lessons on the chalkboard. He sat in the front row, listening very...
MEET FAVOR DELPHINE TITUS

MEET FAVOR DELPHINE TITUS

Meet Favor Delphine Titus Favor, a 6-year-old first-grade student, was sadly aware that she could not see clearly at school. Her parents brought her to GoodVision’s clinic in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital city. She was tested by the GoodVision technicians and received a...
VIVIANA FROM BOLIVIA

VIVIANA FROM BOLIVIA

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...
SUZANNA FROM BRASIL

SUZANNA FROM BRASIL

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...
SCHOOL STORIES

SCHOOL STORIES

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...
RAIDAS FROM THE SLUM

RAIDAS FROM THE SLUM

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,...