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Matching Grant #
62332 - Rotary District 3160 - India
Rotary's Gift of Sight
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This project is funding a multi-faceted project to improve the
eyesight of thousands of poor people in Rotary District 3160:
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We are funding 1,500 cataract surgeries, complete with
intra-ocular lens implantation. |
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We are examining and dispensing prescription glasses for another
2,000 poor people with refractive error. (Bad eyesight) |
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And we are dispensing another 1,000 pairs of safety glasses to
workers who are high risk of eye injury which could lead to cataract
or blindness. |
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This project brings together several new partners. The project
Rotary Club is the RC of Dharmavaram Midtown, Andhra Pradesh, India,
D3160. The international sponsoring club is the RC of South
Gateway-South Bend, Indiana, USA, D6540. Also providing funding are the
Blindness Prevention Donor Advised Fund, and Rotary Districts
6060-eastern Missouri; D6110-portions of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and
Oklahoma; and District 6540-northern Indiana.
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Here are a few of our early stories:
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This young fellow is a college student working toward his masters
degree.
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With his pupil dilated, it is apparent that his cataract is quite large
and mature. He has no vision left in this eye.
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After surgery, his vision is excellent and he can return to his studies
again.
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Dozens, sometimes hundreds, of patients appear at the screening camps to
be selected for surgery.
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This little girl developed a cataract following a perforating injury to
her eye.
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A cataract has developed in just a few days after the injury.
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Due to her young age, a top-of-the-line foldable lens implant was
placed, so that future surgeries might be avoided and the best vision
could be obtained. She has regained much of her eyesight following the
cataract removal and placement of her new lens. Her new eyeglasses give
her normal vision.
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Project status: approved, funded, underway.
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