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A boy gets his eyes tested as others await their turn at a free eye-care camp in Mumbai
15 Feb 2009
Source: Reuters
 
A boy gets his eyes tested as others await their turn at a free eye-care camp set up by voluntary organisation Karm in Mumbai February 15, 2009. According to a World Health Organisation report, 90 percent of the world's blind people live in developing countries with at least 9 million of them in India, where they are often the victims of poverty and lack of access to quality eye care. REUTERS/Arko Datta (INDIA)
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A Tibetan girl living in India holds prayer beads during a demonstration in New Delhi February 25, 2009. Hundreds of Tibetans gathered on Wednesday, on the occasion of Losar, the Tibetan ...




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