Norfolk Sunrise News

Six local Rotarians are now in India to support their $56,000 preventable blindness project in Northern India.  The project has just completed its first year of operation which involves training villagers in remote areas to identify people at risk of preventable blindness.

 

So far in the planned three year project, over 50,000 people have been surveyed by local staff who also provide nutrition and sanitation counseling.  People with eyesight issues are taken to the Rotary Eye hospital in Udhampur for corrective surgery. To date 656 persons have been identified with sight threatening conditions, and a further 2,630 persons have been identified with refractive errors and other eye conditions. 

 

While in India, the team plans to visit other Operation Eyesight projects that Rotary has funded over recent years as well as working with local Rotarians to complete the first annual progress report.

 

In photo, left to right:  Steve Malo, Jane Malo, John Wallace, Jim Dawson, Marjorie Dawson, Alan Plater.