Friday, April 22, 2011

WSJ Suggests You Invest in World Eye Care

"Ninety percent of blind people in the world live in poor areas of developing countries. Eighty percent of them could see again if they had adequate eye-care services," so goes a recent Wall Street Journal
post. "Thought of as a business proposition, the potential for eye-care services is huge — as is the amount of good that could be done. And it's that type of thinking that some investors are acting on. The Acumen Fund, for example, …has invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in eye-care centers in Kenya and elsewhere in East Africa through a program called UHEAL." Read more.

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