Physical Health India Project #20708

Eye Donation Drive in 164 villages -Chiplun, India

by Sahyadri Nisarga Mitra

Eye Donation Drive in 164 villages -Chiplun, India

Project Report | May 2, 2016
Eye Donation Awareness Drive Update Mar - May 2016

By Ramashish Joshi | Project Leader

Press coverage of eye donation

At the outset we thank all the donors, well-wishers to help us for the past one year to carry out eye donation drive in 164 villages of Chiplun, India. We are thankful to GlobalGiving to provide this platform to be in touch with you on regular basis. We appeal you to spread the word within your network to help us reach our donation goal which is still short of $1,500.00.

Here is the progress of our work

Cornea Collection

3 eye donations (cornea collection) took place during the past 2 months.
Throughout the year 15 eye donations (cornea collection) took place

Free Eye Check-up camp

200 villagers received the benefits through three free eye check-up camps arranged in Chiplun Tehsil

Awareness Drives

April 8^th 2016, Gudhi Padwa was the New Year as per Hindu calendar. Since last year, on this occasion various social and cultural organizations have been arranging rallies in Chiplun city. Sahyadri participated in this rally to spread eye donation awareness. Senior citizens spontaneously registered for eye donation during the rally.
Awareness and registration drives were held on regular basis through Chiplun Tehsil
Leveraging the new technology, Sahyadri has developed a mobile application for Android users for easy eye donation registration. This application shall be released during this moth.

Gudhi Padwa rally in Chiplun City

Team at Kalvande camp

Eye donation registration at Pachad

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