In today’s Good News, curious orangutans are starting to get the hang of using a vital bridge built to connect populations separated by a road. And in New York, a nonprofit that has been fighting illiteracy and fostering a love of reading in kids since 2012 celebrates giving away its 6 millionth book.

Catherine Garcia
The Week Digital

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A 6-year-old child with Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis (LCA), a rare eye condition that often leads to total vision loss, had her sight restored following cutting-edge gene therapy at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital. Saffie Sandford’s treatment with Luxturna, which involved injecting both eyes with healthy copies of the RPE 65 gene, was the first demonstration that gene therapy can strengthen visual pathways in a child with LCA. It “restored her sight in the dark,” said Saffie’s mother, Lisa Sandford.

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A critically endangered Sumatran orangutan was filmed for the first time using a canopy bridge to cross a road in North Sumatra, delighting conservationists. The bridge was built two years ago to reconnect two local orangutan populations split by a busy road. With only about 14,000 orangutans left in the wild, the animal crossing success offers hope that simple infrastructure can help the species survive habitat fragmentation.

The Book Fairies, a New York nonprofit that helps underserved communities, recently distributed its 6 millionth book. The group launched in 2012, in founder Amy Zaslansky’s garage. It collects new and gently used books, then gives them to kids in New York City and Long Island to help instill a lifelong love of reading. A new donation of 25,000 books from ThriftBooks will “change so many lives,” Book Fairies associate executive director Courtney Collins told Good News Network.

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