Organisation: GoodVision
Location: Germany
Photographer: Antje Christ

In a São Paulo favela named “New Hope,” a young girl rediscovers her vision and pride in her family’s future.

In the heart of Vila Nova Esperança, São Paulo’s “green favela,” Dalila shares a 10-square-meter home with her six siblings and parents. It’s a tight space, but it’s filled with resilience, and, now, new vision.

At a GoodVision eye camp, Dalila was diagnosed with severe myopia (-3.5 diopters). For too long, she had struggled to see the blackboard at school, missing out on lessons, details, and confidence. But that day, she left with a pair of individually fitted GoodVision Glasses and a new ability to learn with clarity.

Her story, though, is also deeply connected to someone else’s: her brother, Hobson. After school, Hobson worked at GoodVision, helping produce the very glasses that would one day change his sister’s life. With his wages, he began saving to study geography.

Dalila is proud of her brother not just because he made great glasses, but because he helped make a future.

In a place called “New Hope,” vision isn’t just restored -it’s passed forward, one sibling, one student, one dream at a time.