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Matching Grant # 61986 - Rotary District 3270 - Pakistan 
Eye Surgery Project

This matching grant project was organized to fund 1,000 eye surgeries where cataracts will be removed and intra-ocular lenses will be placed, giving "Rotary's Gift of Sight" to 1,000 poor people in Pakistan.

In addition to the Rotary Club of Hayatabad, NWFP, Pakistan in District 3270, other funding partners are the Rotary Club of Somerset-Pulaski County, Kentucky, D6740,  the Blindness Prevention Donor Advised Fund of the Blindness Prevention Rotary Action Group, Rotary District 6060 in eastern Missouri, Rotary District 6710, western Kentucky, and Rotary District 6740, eastern Kentucky, USA.

The project partner is the Rotary Club of Hayatabad Peshawar, Pakistan in District 3270 and the international partner is the Rotary Club of Somerset-Pulaski County, Kentucky, USA D6740.

Our primary contact in Pakistan has been M. Usman Khan, a past-president of the Rotary Club of Hayatabad, Peshawar. Rotarian Usman reported to us that half of the grant proceeds were allocated to the Al-Basarat Foundation for cataract surgeries. Also the Al-Khidmat Foundation played an important role in the completion of the project. Rotarian Zamarud Shah also assisted in the oversight of this project.

Usman reports that 1,000 cataract surgeries have been completed. Also 1,200 were given near vision glasses. A total of 2,000 patients were provided with eye medicines, such as antibiotics, vitamins, anti-allergy medicines, etc. for a variety of problems. Much of the work has been done along the Pak-Afghan border in Afghan Refugee camps.

Project status: Approved, project complete, waiting on final report.