To weave cloth using a handloom, you need patience, coordination and most of all – keen eyesight. So when Junmoni, a handloom weaver, started having trouble with her vision, she knew her livelihood was in peril. The mother of two lives in Chakala, a village near the Brahmaputra River in Assam, northeast India. Her husband… Continue reading Vision restored, hope renewed for mother in India
Category: Eyeglasses
Restored vision brings the sparkle to a little boy’s eyes
Mohammad is a little boy who had always suffered from poor eyesight. Even as a toddler, his vision seemed to keep him from doing more and more things a little boy should love to do. When he was two years old, a doctor at a government hospital advised his parents to take him to an… Continue reading Restored vision brings the sparkle to a little boy’s eyes
Prescription eyeglasses help a brother and sister keep up in school
Sulemana (8) lives in Rama, Ghana. The youngest of seven children, he’s an active child, busy playing with his siblings and attending school. Although Sulemana has always been a good student, his teacher noticed that he was making increasingly frequent mistakes when trying to copy lessons or respond to questions written on the blackboard. His… Continue reading Prescription eyeglasses help a brother and sister keep up in school
A simple pair of eyeglasses transforms a young boy’s future
When Mohammad was two years old, his vision was poor, and his family was advised to take him for regular eye examinations to monitor his vision loss. But his family lived in a small village in India far from an eye hospital, and they weren’t able to travel to seek regular eye health care for… Continue reading A simple pair of eyeglasses transforms a young boy’s future
