One out of every three blinds in the world is in India - estimated 15 million blind people in India.
Up to 80% of blindness is curable or preventable, provided we can mobilize our resources.
There are 15 million blind people in India, two million of whom are children. In fact, one out of every three blind people in the world lives in India. But the silver lining behind this tragic situation is that up to 80 percent of blindness is curable or preventable.
When Dr. Manu Vora, Chairman and President of Business Excellence, Inc., in Naperville, Illinois, learned of these distressing statistics in 1989, he was moved to action.
Vora teamed with four AT&T Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies co-workers - Raj Baxi, Bimal Kothari, Nilesh Kothari and Navin Sanghavi - to form a nonprofit organization called the Blind Foundation for India. The Foundation's mission is to prevent blindness in India, and cure it when possible. It also seeks to provide education, training, and rehabilitation for Indians who are permanently blind.
Since 1991, the foundation has raised over $6.0 Million for blind people in India. The group's financial goal is to reach "ten million dollars by the year 2030." It has no paid staff and over 92 percent of the money collected directly helps the blind. The remainder covers printing, supplies and mailing costs.
S1 Vitamin A prevents a child from going blind.
That child can earn $100,000 in 30 Years.
Only $20 for Cataract Operation in India.
$4,000 per Cataract Operation in USA.
