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Competing visions for a better future

Supplying glasses for the world’s poor may be one of the most valuable investments around

By Douglas Heingartner  /  NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , VEGHEL, NETHERLANDS

For his part, Hannema considers the occasional strife between the groups to be counterproductive.

“Kids in India don’t benefit from that,” he said. “It’s like if UNICEF and the Red Cross would quarrel about a patent on a medicine from a hundred years ago.”

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