Ram Chelluri's Fundraiser
My Appeal
All: I have been volunteering for Sankara Eye Foundation (SEF) for the last three years or so. Thanks to Sriram and Padmini for introducing Murali Krishnamurthy Founder, Executive Chairman of SEF USA to me. SEF has been given the 4 STARs rating, the highest rating for non-profit organizations. SEF's vision is to eradicate curable blindness in India by the year 2020 Vision 20/20 by the year 2020. SEF's mission is to reach out to the rural poor and provide quality eye care free of cost to the needy by building operationally self-sufficient super specialty eye care hospitals across India.
Please support my 5K Walk by generously giving to SEF.
My Progress
Ram is walking 3 miles and raising funds for Sankara Eye Foundation, USA. Please show your support and donate generously.
4.0 MILES done
3 miles
My Cause
The Mission: Outreach to rural poor and provide quality eye care free of cost by building operationally self-sufficient, super specialty eye care hospitals across India..
About the Organization:
Sankara Eye Foundation (SEF) initiates and drives community eye care activities in India by working with our partner, Sankara Eye Care Institutions, India who operate and manage nine world class eye care hospitals all over India. With our “north star” of “eradicating curable blindness in India”; we are diligently striving towards providing quality eye care free of cost to the needy by building operationally self-sufficient super specialty eye care hospitals across India. Learn more at http://www.giftofvision.org/
KEY FACTS:
• Every 5 seconds an adult goes blind! Every minute a child becomes blind in this World!!
• India is home to >1/4th of world's curable blind population
• 80% of blind or visually impaired in India are either preventable or curable
• $30 USD to give the gift of vision (cost of 1 eye surgery)
IMPACT TO DATE: Largest provider of free eye care services in the world
• Completed over 1.6 million free eye surgeries to date
• Nine state of the art hospitals pan India
• Performing over 150,000 free eye surgeries per year and increasing
• Grassroots approach to fundraising. Charity Navigator 4 star rating for five consecutive years.
Recent Donations
SC
$ 50
GC
$ 30
CV
$ 30
SC
$ 30
RE
$ 30
DV
$ 75
MC
$ 30
RC
$ 25
LC
$ 50
AG
$ 30
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