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Newsletter, January - March 2017
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Dear Friends,
I am happy to present to you the last newsletter for the year 2016-17. It has been a successful, and exciting year, albeit a challenging one. I am very grateful to my team, our partners and most of all to the trustees for supporting our work and helping us take Mission for Vision further in its cause.
In this quarter, we made some strides to ensure we have an equally successful year in 2017-18, if not a better one.
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The LVPEI Bhubaneswar Campus was renamed 'Shri Mithu Tulsi Chanrai Campus' in honour of our Founder and Chairman, Mr Jagdish Chanrai's father. He looks towards turning this campus into a centre of excellence from the present tertiary eye-care hospital. Trustees of MFV, well-wishers and staff of MFV were present at Bhubaneswar for the naming ceremony, which was held on LVPEI's 11th anniversary celebrations.
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'They See, They Learn', was initiated in Mumbai along with our corporate partner SABIC. The initiative covered some Municipal schools to ensure enhanced refractive error services to the identified school children. The aim was to reach at least 4000 school children between February and March, 2017. The field work and screening was undertaken by K B Haji Bachooali Eye Hospital, a renowned charitable organisation providing eye health services in the city for over a century. The initiative started with eye screening camps in 9 municipal schools of the city and nearly 4500 students were screened. Post which the process of spectacle distribution was also completed in the respective schools during their parent-teacher meetings. Volunteers from SABIC too visited the camps regularly and provided their support. |
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MFV's partner, Sankara Netralaya inaugurated a new campus in Rajarhat, Kolkata in February 2017. It was formally inaugurated by Ms. Mamata Banerjee, Honourable Chief Minister of West Bengal. Covering an area of 67,000 square feet, the hospital has an entire floor and 2 operation theatres dedicated to community services for the poor. Patients from the Vision Centres in Kolkata run by MFV will be sent to the Sankara Netralaya base hospitals in Mukundapur as well as this new one in Rajarhat.
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| Maaveeran, Sivaseelan and Sathiryan - three brothers in Periyapalayam who were born with eye defects and underwent the eye surgery |
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This quarter's Yash Jyot Awards were awarded to the best performing member of each of the programme teams.
Ramu S (Social Worker) – MFV-JCOC Team
Malagappu Damodar (Field Surveyor East) – Programme Impact Team
Sandeep Ahire (Field Surveyor West) – Programme Impact Team
V Shanmugam (Field Surveyor South I) – Programme Impact Team
S Mariappan (Field Surveyor South II) – Programme Impact Team
I am also pleased to let you know that you can now donate online to MFV via our website (www.missionforvision.org.in). An online donation process was integrated into the website through the portal DanaMoja.
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If you have any suggestions for me, please do not hesitate to write to me at ekurian@missionforvision.org.in I look forward to hearing from you.
With warm regards,,
Elizabeth Kurian
Chief Executive Officer
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