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Blindness Problem

Globally, at least 2.2 billion people have a vision impairment orblindness, of which at least1 billion cases of vision impairmentcould have been prevented or are yet to be addressed.

Nearly 30% of the world’s blind and vision-impaired live in SouthEast Asia

-WHO, World Sight Day Statement

Nearly 40 million people in India, including 1.6 million children, are blind or visually impaired.

-The Tribune

Fortunately, nearly 80% of them can easily be cured if they receive proper treatment.

Journey to Becoming

the World’s Largest Free Eye Care Provider

Sankara Eye Foundation, USA’s journey began in 1998 with one hospital in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu,

providing free eye care, to currently being the world’s largest free eye care provider.

In our mission to help eliminate curable blindness among India’s underprivileged population. Sankara Eye Foundation, USA has built a powerful network of

27 hospitals in 15 states.

Our network of hospitals, some of which are financiallyself-sufficient, serves the states of Tamil Nadu, Gujarat,Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka,Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, Odisha, Uttarakhand,Chhattisgarh, Bihar, and West Bengal.

Currently, our network of hospitals has a total capacity for

515,000

free eye surgeries.

We delivered

356,000+

free eye surgeries in the 2022-23 fiscal year.

We are at an Inflection Point

Sankara Eye Foundation is currently at an inflection point with several key capacity-building infrastructure projects underway. To fulfill our Vision 2030: March to a Million goals, we aim to raise $80 Million by 2030 to support our infrastructure expansion projects and an additional $80 Million for eye surgeries. We propose to do that by building new hospitals and expanding the capacity of the existing hospitals.

Our Upcoming Projects:

Vision 2030

Netaji Eye Hospital, Purulia, WB: Expansion of current facilities at our partner hospital.

Completion expected by March, 2024.

Kalyanam Karoti, Mathura, UP: Expansion of current facilities at our partner hospital.

Completion expected by March, 2024.

Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospitals, Bihar:Expansion project of existing partner hospitals in Purnea, Balia and Samastipur.

Completion expected by March, 2024.

Sankara Eye Hospital, Guntur, AP: Major expansion of existing hospital infrastructure to double free eye surgery capacity to 60,000 per year.

Completion expected by March, 2024.

Sankarseth Sabale Eye Hospital, Solapur, Maharashtra: A new partner hospital construction project

Completion expected by March, 2024.

Sankara Eye Hospital, Kanpur, UP: Major expansion of existing hospital infrastructure to double the free eye surgery capacity to 60,000 per year.

Completion expected by March, 2024.

R. Jhunjhunwala Sankara Eye Hospital, Varanasi, UP: A new hospital construction project which is partially supported by a bequest made by the Late Rakesh Jhunjhunwala.

Completion expected by March, 2024.

Key Milestones: March to a Million

To sustainably scale up to providing 1 million plus free eye surgeries annually, we need to:

Build capacity for both free and paid surgeries.

Establish superlative care quality and cost efficiency.

Being the preferred choice for quality ophthalmologic care.

Drive sustainability by attracting more paid patients who subsidize costs for free patients.

How does it impact free eye care?

Sankara Eye Foundation’s key outreach program in the rural areas, Gift Of Vision, conducts diagnostic eye camps which are pivotal to reaching out to the needy population. In 2021-22, 1485 eye camps were conducted all over India. In 2022-23, the goal is to conduct 2760 eye camps.

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