Restore Eyesight to 2000 Villagers in India

India has the largest population of blind people in the world. That’s over 8 million people. Most of them live in the poorest parts of the country with little or no access to even basic health care facilities.

ICARE Eye Hospital & Post Graduate Institute , a unit of Ishwar Charitable Trust has been providing free   of cost eye care services to rural/urban underprivileged communities in the National Capital Region (NCR) for the last 25 years. ICARE provides eye services by conducting eye screening camps for populations in villages/ slums and performing eye surgeries for patients with curable blindness. We provide free of cost surgical services to over 15,600 patients and screening services to over 150,000 patients from the underprivileged community per annum.

Key facts

1. 285 million people are visually impaired worldwide:39 million are blind and 246 million have lowvision.
2. About90%oftheworlds’visuallyimpairedliveindevelopingcountries.
3. Globally,uncorrectedrefractiveerrorsarethemaincauseofvisualimpairment;cataracts remaintheleadingcauseofblindnessinmiddleandlow-incomecountries.
4. The number of people visually impaired from infectious diseases has greatly reduced in the last 21 years.
5.  80%ofallvisualimpairmentcanbeavoidedorcured.

GOALS AND OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT

• Prevention of blindness due to cataract
• Provide free eye care services to the rural needy locations of Delhi
• Educate and create awareness about cataract
• Free cataract surgeries, spectacles and medicines to the needy patients suffering through avoidable blindness

Thanks to suppoters 

We convey our deep appreciation and heartfelt gratitude to all our donors who have so very kindly helped us in our cause to render modern ophthalmic services to the needy and elderly rural citizens of our country and alleviate their problems. ICARE looks forward to receive continued mutual and fruitful interaction for a common goal in the years to come.