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  • Feelif technology: Feeling life under your fingers

    Maja Prijatelj Videmšek

    June 24, 2017 |

    AzerNews |

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    Response Location: Slovenia, Ljubljana

    A new tablet, called the Feelif multimedia device, allows blind children to learn braille and geometry and play interactive learning games with their fingers. The device allows children to create drawings and write on a tablet and then feel what they've created in a 3 dimensional way.

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  • In 5 Minutes, He Lets the Blind See

    Nicholas Kristof

    November 07, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Hetauda, Central Region

    In the past, people in poor countries who became blind due to cataracts often had no hope of improvement because of the high costs of treatment. Nepalese ophthalmologist, Sanduk Ruit, perfected a cheap and effective cataract removal technique which allows his patients to see again.

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  • Feature: Giving blind people sight illuminates the brain's secrets

    Rhitu Chatterjee

    October 22, 2015 |

    Science Magazine |

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    Response Location: India, New Delhi

    Defying expectations, cataract surgery in Indian children is endowing them with vision—and shedding light on how the brain learns to see.

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  • A Hospital Network With a Vision

    Tina Rosenberg

    January 16, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Madurai, Tamil Nadu

    Twelve million people are blind in India, and are robbed of their livelihoods as a result. A hugely successful chain of cataract hospitals in India helped its business by treating half its patients for free.

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  • Nepal sees end in sight for trachoma

    Amy Yee

    June 23, 2012 |

    The Lancet |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Kathmandu

    In Nepal, specialty eye hospitals are training staff to travel to remote areas of the country to provide eye care to rural communities. This initiative is aimed to prevent and treat trachoma, a degenerative eye disease, with the goal of ultimately eradicating blindness caused by trachoma.

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