SANTA CLARA, CA: Sankara Eye Foundation (SEF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the eradication of curable blindness in India. SEF had organized a mega Dandiya event in Bay Area to raise funds for the construction of their eye hospital in India.
The Dandiya event was spread over five days – Oct 4, 5, 11, 12 in Santa Clara and Oct 19 at Pleasanton. The motto of the event was to spread awareness and to raise money for the construction of their eye hospital in Rajasthan. They have received funds from a generous donor and are now trying to match the rest with these events. It was a sold-out event and has been one since its inception eight years ago.
Established in the Bay Area, SEF is a non-profit organization that has been working for the past fifteen years for the cause of eradicating curable blindness in India. Driven by the truly inspirational mission of “Vision 20/20 by the year 2020,” Sankara has established eight community hospitals as well as two city hospitals. Sankara Eye Hosptial, Kanpur is under construction and is expected to be inaugurated in April or May 2014.
By far the most unique and remarkable characteristic of SEF is that they provide free eye care for those unable to afford it, most of them the rural poor. This accounts for 80 percent – which is approximately 145,000 people per year – of the surgeries performed at their hospitals.
Their tireless efforts have enabled over a million people to receive the gift of vision through free eye surgeries, utterly free of cost. But none of this would have been possible without the generosity and support of SEF’s donors.
The event was a huge success and people were open to help out for a cause way back in our homeland. Mr Krishnamurthy thanked the Board of Trustees, Executive Council members and volunteers who had worked relentlessly for this cause.
Vidya Sethuraman
India Post news service
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