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Organization	Blind People's Association (India)
Region	India
Website	Website
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ProjectLeader	Bhushan Punani

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Saving one person's eyesight is is helping one entire family to survive. One poor elderly person whose eye sight is saved becomes a contributing person and helps the family immediately. So far, the target was to conduct 10,000 surgeries per annum. As this target has already been achieved, we are now revising ou target to 25,000 surgeries per annum. To expand the infrastructure, the organization is starting construction of first floor of the hospital building. It is also adding retina unit also

Challenge

The problem is that poor people in remote villages have no access to help services. They can not forgo a day's wages to go to a hospital. Eye sight is lost due to non-operated cataracts. These people soon become burdens of the family because they are not able to work. Poor people become poorer and their problems multiply. More than 60 per cent blindness in India is due to non-operated cataracts. Most of such visual impairment can be easily corrected by performing cataract and other surgeries.

Long-Term Impact

We propose to reach out to 10,000 people immediately and the long term effect will be better quality of life through improved vision, better earning opportunities leading into better status of the family and acheive better economic status.