Thomas Witherspoon’s not-for-profit Ears to Our World (ETOW) organization delivers self-powered world band receivers to schools and communities in developing regions, for education, disaster relief, and lately, to help communities with visually impaired children. These hand-cranked radios let children and families in areas without much infrastructure hear educational programming, news, and health information along with music and the arts. I traveled with Thomas to Belize City to document the deployment of a few dozen such radios to children participating in a summer camp held each year by the Belize Council for the Visually Impaired (BCVI) in coordination with the Belize Ministry of Education.

Photographs by David Korchin.