What does it mean? Have we ever stopped and thought of the gift of being able to see?
Have you ever stopped and wondered how a blind person is losing vision feels?
Devdaya Trust has embarked on a new project. The mission is to help some of the poorest people living in villages in and around Rajkot district in India to eradicate blindness at an early stage.
How shall we do this?
For children:
By setting up a mobile unit, visiting local villages and schools to prevent, diagnose and treat eye infection.
Providing Vitamin A tablets to the needy to treat vitamin A deficiency.
For adults:
Implanting lenses following Cataract surgery
How can you participate in this mission?
Devdaya Trust has already acquired and repaired the existing Eye Hospital in Wankaner with the massive financial backing from a single Trustee.
Blind Trust USA has pledged money towards the cost of a mobile unit.
Some of the best Cataract lenses can be implemented at an all in cost of £10 per eye.
Besides the in house, experienced team of doctors, some of the best and well-known eye consultants from Mumbai have agreed to provide free consultation services on regular basis.
We are particularly confident of this project based on previous generous support from you, Members of the Enfield Lions and Mayflower Rotary clubs UK and on a hands on approach with the help of locally based dedicated volunteers in successfully achieving the following.
Primary and Secondary School Education: Building of Eleven Schools in and around the villages of Rajkot district.
Primary Health Care: refurbishing and re-equipping of Primary Health Care Centre in Wankaner, following devastating earthquake in January 2001. The Centre has and is successfully continuing to provide Primary Health screening, maternity, dental and ophthalmic services thus avoiding tiring, inconvenient journeys to the nearest town at great expense that can now be spent on health care.
Drugs Store: Establishing a Pharmaceutical shop to distribute medicines at affordable prices.
Blindness, partial or complete loss of vision that cannot be corrected by ordinary glasses. It may be due to damage to that part of the brain involved with vision, or to the optic nerve, but much more commonly due to the eyes themselves. It has been estimated that there are about 10 million people in the world without effective vision, and that for most of them to the loss of sight could have been prevented. A major cause of blindness particularly in the Developing world, is infectious disease, such a trachoma (a form of chronic conjunctivitis), sexually transmitted disease, measles, meningitis, diphtheria, leprosy and onchocerciasis (river blindness). Dietary deficiency also plays a role. The World Health Organisation has established national blindness prevention programmes in many developing countries, largely based on Primary Health Care: training programmes the early recognition of cataract and trachoma have been setup for the community health workers. In Developed countries the causes are more commonly Glaucoma, Diabetes and hereditary and congenial conditions. Restoration of sight is possibly only when blindness is due to clouding have the translucent or cornea. In that case, removal of the lenses or corneal grafting is effective. Facilities to help the blind and partially sighted minimize their disability to include training for jobs, books, textbooks and other material written Braille computer terminals.
Please join us to help those poor destitute people to retain or regain their eyesight. We need your support to set this venture in motion.
