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Q1 – April-June 2015 - Newsletter
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| Eye-land in Bay of Bengal
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| Irrukam is a tiny island in the Bay of Bengal, 60-km northeast of Chennai in Tamil Nadu. Getting to this
predominantly fishing hamlet of about 3,500 people involves a rail or road journey followed
by an hour-long boat ride. MFV, along with partner Sankara Nethralaya Jaslok Community Ophthalmic Centre, organised an
eye camp here, the first such programme by any hospital on this remote island.
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| Greetings Friends,
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| The Irrukam outreach camp was a novel and gratifying experience for the MFV team in Chennai and the rest of us. This lends more
strength to our efforts towards eradicating avoidable blindness across India.
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| MCGM believes in the timeless idiom - Prevention is better than cure
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| MFV also conducted an eye screening camp for
employees of the Municipal Corporation of Greater
Mumbai (MCGM), Mumbai’s civic body. On June
27, level 4 staff from the civic administration
attended a camp at the MCGM office at Nana
Chowk.
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| North |
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| MFV has launched Mission Roshni in partnership with Dr Shroff’s Charity Eye and ENT Hospital.
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| Northeast |
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| A community eye health project has also been
initiated by MFV in Arunachal Pradesh.
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| East |
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| Meanwhile, the Kolkata Urban Project is
continuing with Sightsavers’ support.
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| Vision 2020: The Right to Sight |
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| The 11th annual conference of ‘Vision 2020: The
Right to Sight’, a forum working towards eliminating
avoidable blindness across the country by year
2020, was held in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh.
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| Community Impact Assessment |
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| Between April and June 2015, we surveyed 2,348
patients, of which 43 per cent were male and 57 per
cent were female.
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Old age,
new problems |
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| If Neelammal and her husband found it tough to
fend for themselves, things have only become
harder since their only son died.
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Flowery Vision
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| A few months ago, Purnabai Shantaram
Bhoye, a 65-year-old resident of Chinchwad
in Nashik district, Maharashtra, noticed that her vision was
getting blurry and unclear.
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Helping others
see
the light |
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| Majai is a town located in Meghalaya’s East Khasiya
hills. A metal fencing separating India and
Bangladesh is the only object of note in this
otherwise mofussil town.
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Mission for Vision
112-A, Mittal Tower, Nariman Point,
Mumbai - 400 021, India
Tel: +91-22-2282 4967/94
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