Rotaract Intl Activities - Give Sight India

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International Service Project
Give Sight

Coimbatore, India 
Rotaract District 5170 U.S.A.
August 2007

 Medical equipment is officially accepted by the

Sankara Eye Hospital staff and local Rotarians

Stanford Rotaract Club and

Silicon Valley Rotaract Club

Present

This Powerful and Informative PowerPoint Archive

     Rotaract Give Sight India Project

Excellent and Colorful Photos and

Worldwide Goodwill are Included

Contributing Clubs and Organizations

Bellevue Rotary Club, WA
Palo Alto Rotary Club, CA
Palo Alto University Rotary, CA
Sunnyvale Rotary, CA
Coimbatore Rotary Club, India
Pazardjik Rotary Club, Bulgaria
Stanford Rotaract Club, CA
Silicon Valley Rotaract, CA
Lehman Brothers, Inc.
Rotary International Foundation

Goal: Partner with interested parties from all over the world to raise funds and organize an EyeCamp in Coimbatore, India

Multiple Rotary and Rotaract clubs, as well as corporate sponsors and other service organizations like Phi Theta Kappa made it possible for $25,000 to be raised for the project.

Lehman Brothers employees from the Menlo Park office made donations in the form of 80,000 frequent flier miles to enable volunteers to fly to India and cash donations in the amount of $6,500, which were then matched by the Lehman Brothers Foundation.

The funds were used for the purchase of essential medical equipment worth $25,000, which was donated to the Sankara Eye Hospital:

-Slit Lamp with Applanation
-Computerized Non contact Tonometer
-Direct Ophthalmoscope
-Streak Retinoscope
-Indirect Ophthalmoscopes

Key Participants and Project Leaders

The Give Sight Project

Four volunteers from the US led by Pradeep Rajendran and Angel Kelchev traveled to Coimbatore, India to help the Sankara Eye Society and set up a field Eye Camp in Coimbatore, India.

300 villagers with severe vision impairments were received at the Eye Camp and subjected to medical examinations.

After initial medical examinations in the Eye Camp, all 300 patients were transported to the hospital facilities, where they received free cataract surgeries and accommodations.

Pradeep, Angel and their team also cooked and served food to all of the villagers and the thirty additional volunteers supporting the Eye Camp.