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.
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.
We will be able to reach to these poor people in remote villages through our vans and bring them to our hospital for treatment where all services including food, medicines, refraction, surgeries are free of charge. Quality treatment will be assured
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.
Gangaben says "I can see the face of my grand child now. I was told that she was pretty but now I realize she is really beautiful. I thank eye hospital & BPA - poor people like me are helped by them."
- Gangaben of Giramtha village in Gujarat, Free Patient at Hospital who atteded the eye camp
Total Funding Received to Date: $23,813
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $48,387
Total Funding Goal: $72,200
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
Ahmedabad,
Gujarat,
India
http://www.bpaindia.org
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