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Home | Club Projects | Rotary Eye Project
A donation of just £5 can enable the blind to see again!
Rotary Club of Guildford Eye Project
SUPPORT THE 2015 NEW HOSPITAL CHALLENGE
HELP PROVIDE 50 NEW EYE HOSPITALS IN INDIA
WITH THESE NEW FACILITIES IN PLACE
100,000 OPERATIONS PER ANNUM
CAN BE PROVIDED BY ROTARY!!
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In 1997 Guildford Rotarian S N Das MBE, an eye surgeon and consultant ophthalmic surgeon,
started the project in and around Kolkata (Calcutta) with a personal ambition to restore the
sight of 100,000 people!
Aided by a generous grant system from the worldwide Rotary Movement, the £15 cost of a
cataract and other similar operations can be funded by a donation of JUST £5 FROM YOUR CLUB.
THE GUILDFORD ROTARY EYE PROJECT provides:-
- Training for eye surgeons
- Microscopes and laser equipment etc.
- Eye buses
- Hospital transport
- Mobile eye screening camps
- Facilities for additional treatments
- Strives to ensure self sufficiency for all eye units
- These eye hospitals are currently carrying out an impressive 40,000 operations per annum
MUCH MORE CAN BE DONE WITH YOUR SUPPORT in the Indian sub continent, in Africa and
in other economically emerging countries.
A donation of just £5 can enable the blind to see again!
Taxpayers in Great Britain can Gift Aid their donation and add to its value:- On-line donation.
Charity registration number 1127630
Click here for a fact sheet of the history and present activity of the project at the end of June 2012. (opens new window)