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An innovative project on the Mexican border helps people with disabilities and restores dignity

NOGALES, MEXICO — In a makeshift audiology center on the southern end of this border town, 6-year-old Jesus Lopez sits in a sound booth wearing headphones and a look of wonderment as a technician checks his hearing acuity. An audiometer sends a range of sounds to the boy’s ears, but he hears none. It’s the reason he is here to get help from a U.S.-Mexico venture known as Arizona Sonora Border Projects for Inclusion, a program that provides low-cost hearing aids, prosthetics and wheelchairs to poor people with disabilities in a part of the world where such resources are scarce. "We found that those were the three areas where there were fewer opportunities for people to be able to integrate...

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