In October, during World Sight Day celebrations, Liberia’s Health Ministry announced an ambitious promise: to screen one thousand students and distribute twelve thousand donated reading glasses nationwide.
Six months later, the ministry says about one fourth of those glasses have been distributed but it still has not given details on who received them. That’s leading vision advocates to question the accountability of the project.
As Fatu Kamara reports in this collaboration with OkayFM, one teacher’s story shows why getting glasses to schoolchildren who need them matters.

This report was produced with New Narratives as part of the Investigating Liberia project. Funding was provided by the Swedish Embassy in Liberia, which had no say in the story’s content.