PARTNERSHIP ACROSS THE SOCIO ECONOMIC SPECTRUM: Sustainable vision for grass roots

Dr. Hitendra Ahooja September 2012 Hyderabad (IN)

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WHY

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1,80,00,000India is home to largest number of Blind

and still counting…with this event…

A significant number in rural, remote and under-served areas

More than nearly half of the blindness is preventable

REASONS FOR GAPS

AWARENESS RESOURCESWILLGOVERNANCE

NIRAMAYA’S INITIATIVES

PROJECT “DRISHTIMITRA” VISION CENTRES

C S R COMMUNITY INITIATIVE

RESPONSIBILITY RESPONSIVENESS

PROJECT ‘DRISHTIMITRA’

COMMUNITY EYE CARE PROJECT PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS

PROJECT MISSION

Project ‘DRISHTIMITRA’, a model rural eye care project, one of the most significant in North India in terms of reach, coverage and breadth of services to cover about 45 villages

Provision of high quality, comprehensive ‘Inclusive Primary Eye Care’ to entire population of project area (around 1 Lac) in a cost effective way

Provision to ‘Secondary Eye Care’ for limited purpose of prevention of blindness mainly through Specialist Intervention and Cataract Surgeries

PROJECT MISSION

Separate delivery channels Schools for young Village camps for elderly, adults, infants and non-

school going children

Over a period of 18 month, project reached out to most of the target population in Gurgaon and Jajjhar districts

Project sponsored by Reliance

IMPACT

• Primary Eye Care provided to 1,00,000 people

• Cataract Surgeries provided to 900 people

• Spectacles provided to 16000 people

• The cost per beneficiary was low and the technology- world class

VISION CENTRE

Niramaya runs, eight primary eye care centres, since 2005

Each centre, supported by a local community leader, operated once a week

Common resources (medical team, medicines, equipment) enable delivery of high quality services at low cost

VISION CENTRE

Cataract identification (surgery through another Project) & Refractive errors tackled

Around 10000 beneficiaries every year

Local community, corporates, individual donors support the project apart from a mother NGO Concern India Foundation

SUSTAINABILITY

Awareness

Dedicated efforts

Visible results

Community involvement

Niramaya Charitable Trust

THANK YOU !

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