Once it got
into my blood
I couldn’t stop.”
Exit
GREATEST
PERSON OF
THE WEEK
Bob Martin
Bringing
Sight
To South
America
BY AJ BARBOSA
& MICHAEL SEWALL
SINCE 1985, thousands across
South America have made the
long trip to wait in the even longer lines snaking outside Vision
Health International’s makeshift
optometry post. At times, it takes
several days in the Amazon Valley’s stifling heat before eye doctors can see a patient, but that
hasn’t seemed to discourage anyone. Some are partially blind, othPHOTOGRAPH BY JIM LUNING
HUFFINGTON
08.05.12