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How India uses its massive network of post offices to get people reading glasses

In some towns in India, people working for a nonprofit approach people who appear to have trouble reading small print and get them hooked up with glasses. It’s hard to get reading glasses in a lot of countries, and this is a way to facilitate that.

NPR’s Gabrielle Emanuel reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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