Sankara Eye Foundation - How Darkness Feels?

We love to crib

About work

About traffic

About the government

And about blackouts that perhaps last a few hours?

Ever thought of a ‘life-long’ blackout?

Inflicted on people who remain silent about it?

You can change things

Figures are facts!

• In India, 12 million people are blind• 2 million go blind every year – 62% from cataract• 320,000 children are blind• 9.2 million others are visually impaired and cannot attend regular

classes• 80% of these cases are either preventable or curable

Do you still feel like cribbing? About basics?

And the question is, are we doing enough?

At Sankara Eye, we have made a start…

…through The Gift of Vision Programme

The Gift of Vision Programme

• Largest Structured Community Eye Care Programme in India

• Poor & needy in the rural areas are identified by door to door survey involving local self help groups

• The programme treats patients with surgically curable blindness including cataract, glaucoma, retinal ailments and even paediatric eye diseases such as squint

The Reach

• Covers 110 revenue districts in 6 states and 2 UT

• Gift of Vision has benefitted millions through high quality eye care at the door steps of rural India.

• Gift of Vision is the most successful & cost-effective of all health interventions.

A History of Success

• 7981 camps conducted as of now

• 5,03,322 Vision Restoring surgeries performed

• 98.8% success rate• 1,49,5572 outpatients

screened

Preventive Eye Care

The Need for Preventive Eye Care

• Early detection and timely intervention can very effectively preventive visual impairment.

• Refractive errors & Amblyopia (lazy eye disease) affects nearly 7 - 12% children in the community. Diagnosis is simple & the results of the treatment are dramatic

The Need for Preventive Eye Care

• Sankara's preventive eye care program include :a) Rainbowb) Maitric) Swagatham

• Wherever required, special tests & medical/surgical treatment is provided free of cost

The Programs

RAINBOW• Preventive eye care

for school children• 6-15 years age

group• Over 3 million

children screened in four districts.

• Replicated in Guntur, Bangalore, Anand, Shimoga, Chennai and in Nigeria

MAITHRI• Preventive eye

care for children at the ICDS Centres (Anganwadi)

• 3-6 years age group

SWAGATHAM• To screen new born

infants at maternity centres

• 0 -3 years age group

About Sankara Eye Hospitals

About Sankara Eye Hospitals

• Sankara is focusing on – Eliminating curable blindness in India– Eliminating blindness through preventive eye care

• Sankara Institutions have provided a cumulative eye care to the value of Rs. 1,528 million, which is an equivalent of $34 million

Can you be a catalyst for change?

• You can be the catalyst for change in profoundly impacting the lives of many children & adults in our country. The rewards for restoring a person’s vision are priceless!

• You can join our communities by clicking on any of the links below:

www.facebook.com/sankaraeye www.twitter.com/sankarav2020 www.youtube.com/sankarav2020 www.flickr.com/sankarav2020

• For more information, log on to www.sankaraeye.com