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Stanford researchers partner with local government to bring vision care to rural China
December 2015
One simple action—placing eyeglasses on a nearsighted child’s face—can help that child to learn almost twice as much in a single school year.
Huffington Post: How Glasses Can Help Solve Rural China's Schooling Problem
October 2015
Simply giving nearsighted children glasses can dramatically boost their school performance.
REAP’s Perfecting Parenting Project Shows Promise
June 2015
Once every week for six months, a special team of family planning workers fanned out across the remote towns of Shaanxi Province or journeyed to isolated villages in the Qinling Mountains, the...