Do you wear glasses or contacts? Think back to that moment you realized you couldn’t see the blackboard: What if you were denied that first pair of glasses? How would your life be different? Would you ...

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Levi Strauss Foundation, VF Corporation, Warby Parker and Deckers Brands work with social enterprise VisionSpring and USAID. 188,000 apparel and footwear factory workers have vision corrected with ...

Madam Regina Quayson hand-pollinating a cocoa tree wearing VisionSpring eyeglasses. Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $15 million to VisionSpring, a New York nonprofit that sells ...

Global program VisionSpring gives inexpensive reading glasses to health workers. June 26, 2011— -- If you have trouble seeing or reading up close after age 40 -- a common complaint -- the ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On this World Sight Day, as the global community focuses its attention on the 1 billion people who still do not have the eyeglasses they need to see clearly, VisionSpring ...

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Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has given $15M to a social enterprise that provides cheap eyeglasses. VisionSpring said it'll help generate $1 billion in income for agricultural and artisan workers.

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VisionSpring is launching a $70 million initiative, Livelihoods in Focus, to correct the vision of more than 6 million people by 2030. The initiative will focus on low-income tea, coffee, cocoa and ...