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Organisation: GoodVision
Location: Germany
Photographer: Antje Christ
After a lifetime of caring for children, school janitor Emiliana receives her first eye test - finally getting help for the vision problems she could no longer ignore.
Emiliana Cabrera has always been surrounded by children. She raised 10 of her own and when they left home, she took a job as a janitor at the school in Qhora Qhora, a village at 3,000 meters above sea level near the city of Sucre in Bolivia. There, she unlocks the doors in the mornings, cleans the classrooms, sells sweets and sometimes also some home-cooked food. When GoodVision examines all the children for two days, the 53-year-old also wants an eye test because she complains of pain in one eye. The team is able to help her with reading glasses in the short term, but advises Emiliana to visit an eye clinic again soon.