Focus
Educating slum, govt schools and community children in Hyderabad about basic eye care and screening them for the vision problems.
We also care to provide free of cost treatment and medical aid to those identified with problems
About the Project
Most ocular injuries in children are preventable by early detection, education and change in environmental conditions.
Current Scenario: According to a source 45 million people worldwide are bilaterally blind, of which 6 to 8 million are blind due to corneal disease. In India, there are approximately 7 million people who have corneal blindness with vision <6/60 in at least one eye.
Out of 7 million, about 1 million have bilateral corneal blindness. If the present trend continues, it is expected that in India the corneal blindnes will increase
to 8.5 million in 2010 and 10.6 million by 2020. In India, there were a total of two million corneal blindness cases, with 40,000 to 50,000 cases added every year.
Mission: Prevention of blindness among children by early detection of vision problems, educating children, teachers and parents about maintaining the eye hygeine and prevention of corneal injuries during festivals like diwali, holi and play.
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Project Objectives
1. Early detection and early intervention to prevent blindness.
2. To create awareness among people about prevention of corneal injuries and maintaining better eye hygiene.
3. Screening the children of all ages in all slum and govt schools for the vision problems.
4. Providing aids and treatment to all the affected children by taking them to good hospitals and helping in medicine, spectacles etc.
Partners
 | LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad has helped Sakshum to provide free of cost required training, onsite support in the
screening process for all the events done till now in Hyderabad by Sakshum. |
Project Coordinators
Statistics
| No. of Schools/Ngo/Slums Screened |
No. of children |
Cases Found |
Provided Treatment |
| 12 |
2118 |
129 |
94 |
Upcoming Events
Please check our event calendar here.
Schools/NGOs/ Slum Areas covered
Below is the list of schools/NGOs/slums covered till now:
• Adrash Prathmik Pathshala, sector-27, Noida See coverage
• Zila Parishad High School, Gachibowli, Hyderabad Screening Report See coverage
• Mohammad Hussain Govt High School, New Hafeezpet, Hyderabad See coverage
• Don Bosco Navjeevan, New Boiguda, Hyderabad Screening Report See coverage
• Holly Bells School, Enadu Colony, Kukatpalli, Hyderabad Screening Report See coverage
• Thalessmia Society, Vidya Nagar, Hyderabad
• CN Thanda School, Chandra N Thanda nagar, Hyderabad Screening Report See coverage
• Sri Vijaya Bharti School, Indra nagar, Hyderabad Screening Report blog post See coverage
• Ashray Akruti, Sri nagar colony, Hyderabad Screening Report
• Parbat Nagar school, Madhapur, Hyderabad Screening Report blog post
• St. Isaac School, Miyapur, Hyderabad Screening Report blog post
• Sivaji Vidyapeeth School, Jublee hills, Hyderabad Screening Report See coverage
Volunteer/ Project Leads
Sakshum welcomes every one who wants to volunteer in any of the upcoming project events. If you are interested to lead an event of project
Adopt A School please send us
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Sponsor
We are always in need of funds to sustain our initiatives. We have to bear the expenses in
organizing volunteers, entertaining school children/ staff, building/renovating
infrastructure, transporting affected children to hospital and various other activities.
To help Sakshum achieve its mission please
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