CHICAGO: The Rotary Club of Naperville conferred a Paul Harris Fellow Medal to Dr. Manu Vora for his 26 plus years of dedicated service to the Blind Foundation for India.
The Awards Ceremony was held on May 21 at Mason Sabika Restaurant in Naperville with 120 guests in attendance. In all 10 individuals were recognized with a distinct honor of Paul Harris Fellow Medal.
Paul Harris Award Winners were selected in various categories such as Club Service, Community Service, International Service, Vocational Service, and Youth Service. Dr. Vora was selected in the International Service category for his tireless efforts to alleviate sufferings of over 15 million blind people in India accounting for one-third of the world’s blind population. His work as a Chair of the “Save The Children Holiday Fund Drive” at AT&T Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies from 1986 to 1999 sponsoring 52 children in 19 countries around the world was also recognized.
The mission of The Rotary Foundation is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.
The Rotary Foundation helps fund humanitarian activities, from local service projects to global initiatives. The club or district can apply for grants from the Foundation to invest in projects and provide scholarships. The Foundation also leads the charge on worldwide Rotary campaigns such as eradicating polio and promoting peace. Rotarians and friends of Rotary support the Foundation’s work through voluntary contributions.
The Blind Foundation for India (BFI) is a registered 501 (c) (3) charitable organization in operation since 1989. The mission of BFI is to prevent and cure blindness, and educate and rehabilitate permanently blind individuals in India. To date, BFI has raised over $4 million to benefit over one million people with visual impairment in India.
With support from BFI, medical partners in India have performed over 125,000 free Cataract operations, examined over 750,000 school-going children in public schools for eyesight issues, provided 10,000 Braille kits and donated 115 mobile vans to transport eye doctors to villages and patients to eye hospitals for Cataract removals. For more information on BFI, visit: http://www.blindfoundation.org
Ramesh Soparawala
India Post News Service
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