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"A billion people don't have the glasses they need," Ella Gudwin tells Fast Company.
"This problem is solvable! We know what the challenges are, and we know how to make this 700-year-old technology more available."
Gudwin is CEO of VisionSpring, a Massachusetts-based company that sells affordable, prescription eyeglasses in more than 100 countries.
It's a mission aligned with Gudwin's own: She was 5 years old when she visited Sri Lanka, her first exposure to poverty, and in college she interviewed women in Indonesia about family planning.
"I couldn't have imagined this future I have now walked, but I was on the path," she says.
As for why her company's mission aligns with her own, " eyeglasses aren't complicated.
The world has a lot of complicated problems, but eyeglasses aren't complicated.
A billion people don't have the glasses they need.
This problem is solvable! We know what the challenges are, and we know how to make this 700-year-old technology more available."
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