News & Updates
Successfully conducted a Screening camp for disabled people in the Vapi district, in the Talukas of Umargaon, Nanapaudha and Valsad. Our team of Prosthetic engineers and technicians took the measurements of 875 patients for a Jaipur foot, Polio Callipers and a Prosthetic Hand.
We will have distribution camp in March 2019 in Vapi.
In the ninth camp of Vision 10000, Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust in association with Essilor Vision Foundation & Titan Eye Plus organized a FREE Eye Camp to screen 112 BMC workers of the conservation department. The camp was conducted on the 2nd of January 2019 at the BMC office in D Ward.
At the camp, requisite measurements of the students' eyes and screening for cataract were done by an optometrist from Titan Eye Plus.
Fine quality lenses, provided by Essilor Vision Foundation, will be fitted into spectacles and the ready spectacles will be distributed for free to all the BMC workers prescribed by the optometrist within 4 weeks of the screening camp. The BMC workers will also be provided with FREE cataract surgery by Vision Foundation of India, Babulnath.
Summary of the camp:
Total number of screenings - 112
Prescribed glasses - 102
Cataract - Nil
No spectacles needed - 10
Our trustee Mr. Rajiv Mehta has been appointed in the Mentor's Committee of Light of Life Trust for the year 2018-19.
Computer center has been set up by Rotary Club of Palanpur city with 10 computers donated by Ratnanidhi Charitable Trust.
Hundreds of children will learn computer and internet skills now in Palanpur (Gujarat) at K M CHOKSI primary school.
Here is an acknowledgement letter of the same.
Thanks to the President and the members of Rotary Club of Palanpur city. This is our 4th project with this club and they do amazing work.
Three (3) of our social workers are travelling from village to village, to cover the entire Vapi district in Gujarat making announcements via a loud speaker, creating awareness of our forthcoming mobility camp.
All local Aaganwadi workers, school teachers, village sarpanch and even elders are contacted in person, to educate them for the mobilIty camp where more than 800 disabled will be fitted with Jaipur foot, polio callipers and prosthetic hands, free of cost.
Screening Camp Details are as follows:
Date: 25th and 26th December2018
Venue : Gandhi sadan, Near vyayam shala,
Mangalwad,Umargoan town,Umargoan
Timings : 10 to 6 pm
Date : 27th and 28th December 2018
Venue : APMC MarketKhetiwadi utpan bazar samiti,
Kaprada subyard, Nanapaundha
Timings : 10 to 6 pm
Date : 29th and 30th December2018
Venue : Bai Avabai High School,
Halar Road, Valsad
Timings for 29th December :1pm to 6pm
Timing for 30th December : 10 to 6 pm
12 Wheelchairs were donated to physically challenged people on 10th December at Mobility Centre of Ratnanidhi.
Thanks to Rotary Club of Bombay Metropolitan & thanks to Rotarian President Ms Mangala Desai & Past President Rajen Mehta.
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