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Sankara Eye Foundation, USA

Vision 20/20 By The Year 2020Eradicate curable blindness in India by

providing free quality eye care to the needy.

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Sankara Eye Care Institutions & Sankara Eye Foundation

• 1/5th of the world’s blind population, 45 million, are in India

– 80% of them are curable blindness, but most can’t afford quality care

• Sankara Eye Care Institutions, India, has been providing quality eye care, with #1 rural out-reach program for over 30 years with the state of the art Sankara Eye Hospitals

– Provides quality eye care to the poor with a group of facilities which are among the best in the world.

• SEF, run entirely by volunteers, raises funds in USA to help build Sankara Eye Hospitals throughout India

– Instrumental in growing # of hospitals from 1 in ‘98 to 8 in ’08

– Help each hospital become self sufficient (80% free, 20% paying)

Goal: Provide one million free surgeries per year by year 2020

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