Finding focus, gazing beyond

A US volunteer, who saw rural Chinese students struggle with sight, founded a nonprofit that is helping to find solutions in schools. Zhang Zefeng reports.

Andrew Shirman's farsighted life vision has led him to focus on providing eyeglasses for impoverished Chinese children.

The American from an Illinois village decided as a teenager that success was measured by distance - that is, how far he could go from where he came, in every sense.