On 18th June 2021 we embarked on a new journey with the thought of employing our wide field footprint and grassroots cadre to address the problem of curable blindness among extremely poor and vulnerable tribal / rural communities by acting as extended arms of hospitals that did free surgeries under a Cental Govt scheme. The idea was to organise camps in areas where these hospitals themselves could not have outreached nor could the patients gone), and using our field strength, do the propagation and subsequent mobilisation of the elderly at camp locations, take them to hospitals and bring them back in hired buses (each bus hire for 3 days or so cost Rs 50 to 80 thousand or so for a 400 to 700 km to and fro journey).
After 37 months we have done more than 4600 such camps in 38 districts (36 in MP and 1 each in Rajasthan and UP), mobilised more than 5.5 lac persons for eye examination and have conducted 63 thousand surgeries.
It would not have been possible without the support of Sadguru Sri Ranchhoddas Trust hospitals in Chitrakoot (Satna) and Anandpur (Vidisha) and our field Sevavratees who, on hundreds of occasions, woke up all night to send and bring back the patients under our care and responsibility.
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Two decades of rigorous and dedicated humanitarian service
Death for the cause is our goal, not success.
– Swami Vivekananda (Letters, 26th May 1900, San Francisco)
