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February 2010 Feb 2010 Volume 13, Issue 1 EIN: 77-6141976 Distributed By: Board Members: Edited by: SEF, USA K.Sridharan Hema Chamraj 1851 McCarthy Blvd, #218 Girish Muckai Smita Patel Milpitas, CA 95035 Sundar Radhakrishnan Murali Krishnamurthy 1-866-SANKARA Divyogi Patel Kinjal Bhardwaj-Husges www.giftofvision.org Executive Chairman: Murali Krishnamurthy Message from Murali Krishnamurthy Very warm greetings to all of you from San ‘Founding Donor’ of the UP hospital and Jose, California! As with everyone in the have your name or name of a beloved one US, the current economy also affected SEF on the hospital’s ‘Wall of Founders’. and our revenue was down in 2009, but, as you know, with your solid support and Our top priority for the next six months or indomitable spirit, we have the strength to more is the Punjab hospital. We have two boldly keep marching towards Vision 20/20 acres of donated land in Ludhiana and one by 2020. And to give you strength to contin- of the conditions laid down by the donor ue to support us, we are proud to announce is that we complete this hospital in two that SEF once again received a 4-star rating years and start our FREE eye surgeries for the sound fiscal management from Char- immediately. We took upon this challenge ity Navigator, America’s largest and most with a firm belief that you will all help make utilized independent evaluator of charities. this happen. The tentative budget for this project is around $3 Million and we need There are many other opportunities for In 2009, Sankara Eye Hospitals performed to raise $2 Million this year to start the $5,000 and up donations. You can have a over 105,000 free eye surgeries and in construction by mid-2010 and complete the family plaque at the various rooms in the 2010 we aim to perform several thousand hospital by December 2011. We are also hospital, including the operating theaters, more. All our new Sankara Eye Hospitals ready to hire 30 to 40 para-medical staff wards, patient rooms. Do not miss out on namely Bangalore, Anand and Shimoga are from Punjab and start their 18 month rigor- the best sponsorship choices. Please performing very well and we are very happy ous training at Coimbatore or Bangalore so contact us to get more information on these to inform you that we have already per- that they will be ready to join the Sankara sponsorships. formed over 10,000 free surgeries at SEH Eye Hospital, Ludhiana on time. Anand since its inauguration in October If you are one of those who can afford to 2008 and this would not have been possible We are looking for volunteers to join our donate $1 Million or more, please don’t without you. Please consider the ‘Open an Focus-Punjab and Focus UP teams in the hesitate to contact me now! We can name Eye a Month’ or the ‘Open an Eye a Week’ San Francisco Bay Area, Southern Cali- the Community Eye Care Center after your sponsorship for just $30 a month or $30 a fornia, Tri-State (NY, NJ etc.,), Seattle and beloved ones and perpetuate the name for week respectively, so that we can continue other parts of the country. In some of these ever. exceeding everyone’s expectations year areas you will be the one starting these after year. teams. Ability to speak in Punjabi is surely Please join our movement of Vision 20/20 a big advantage for the Punjab team. by 2020 today and help prevent our broth- Our focus in now on our new capital proj- ers and sisters becoming needlessly blind. ects - Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. We are Please call me today if you are interested looking for three to five acres of land with and ready for an exciting worthy challenge. excellent visibility and access in Kanpur, UP, Sincerely, to build a state-of-the-art 200 bed Sankara Just as in the Anand hospital, we are hop- Eye Hospital. If you or someone you know ing the Ludhiana, Punjab hospital too will can donate this type of land then please call have at least a thousand Founding Donors Murali Krishnamurthy me now at 408-425-1268 or email me at who will donate $1,000 and have the name [email protected]. We are also look- of a beloved one on the hospital’s ‘Wall of ing for monetary donation for this upcoming Founders’. hospital so please consider becoming a WWW.GIFTOFVISION.ORG Sankara Eye Care Hospitals Update Congratulations to the Sankara Eye and revolutionary new treatments for Sankara Eye Hospital, Bangalore Hospital, Anand, Gujarat and Sanka- macular degeneration, one of the most is attracting more paying-patients ra Eye Hospital, Shimoga, Karnataka common causes of sight loss in the everyday which will help accelerate its for each reaching the key milestone of elderly. The retina service provides a path to self-sufficiency. On 12th August 10,000 free eye surgeries since their full range of “Anti VEGF” treatments 2009, the Eye Bank at the Banga- inauguration in October 2008. (vascular endothelial growth factor) lore Hospital was inaugurated in the which work by targeting a certain presence of Honourable Chief Justice Sankara Eye Hospital, Anand is start- protein known to be very effective in Santosh Hegde. He lauded the efforts ing to see an increase in the number of improving sight. The Sankara Eye Hos- of Sankara and appreciated the relent- patients visiting the camp and just for pital is the only independent hospital less dedication showed by Sankara the month of January 2010, the num- in the Malnad region which provides a staff. This is the second Eye Bank for ber of surgeries recorded was 1,524, fully integrated AMD service, supported Sankara Eye Care Institutions, India, the highest ever in a single month. by fluorescein angiography. This gives whose original Eye Bank in Coimbatore As a token of approval of our ongoing Sankara, the flexibility to deliver ‘one has proved to be a Model Eye Bank for Gift of Vision programme, the Govern- stop’ diagnosis and treatment. the country. ment of Gujarat’s Tribal Development Department has sanctioned 2 buses Sankara Eye Hospital, Guntur needs for undertaking the programme in the to be congratulated for achieving self # of Free Eye Surgeries Sankara Eye (Jan 09 to Dec 09) Tribal areas of Panchamahal, Dahod, sufficiency – an important milestone Hospital Sabarkantha Chota Udepur & Vado- that is targeted for all Sankara Eye Coimbatore 33,440 dara District. Hospitals. Despite reaching self suf- Guntur 22,271 ficiency the hospital is gearing up to Krishnankoil 10,397 Sankara Eye Hospital, Shimoga is perform increased number of eye sur- Bangalore 9,836 gaining a lot of local support and has geries since it has received approval Shimoga 7,150 become the local favorite as it is the for the Government empanelment Anand 7,877 only super specialty hospital in that program to serve Govt. of AP employ- Silvasa 4,316 area. The hospital is providing proven ees and retired staff. Pammal 10,109 CALENDAR OF EVENTS Gift of Vision: Bay Area: Tri-State: Beyond a lifetime March 12, 2010 Feb 25, 2010 Shreya Ghosal Concert Infosession / Fundraising SEF would like to pay tribute to Happy Hour at Nirvana in Ravi Bhanvadia, who exemplified service during his short life and April 17, 2010 NYC provided gift of vision to two oth- Visakhi ers after his demise. Ravi, son of Punjabi Heritage Society May 2, 2010 Vanita and Ramnik Bhanvadia was iWalk in New Jersey born on July 21, 1989. He was a October 2010 third year student at UC Riverside SEF Dandia and wanted to be a Doctor. On October 2010 December 13, 2009, while leaving SEF Dandia in New his sweet memories, he left all of Southern California: Jersey us donating both eyes and 3 heart August 7, 2010 valves-giving lives to 5 unknown Carnatic Music Vocal people. by Sneha Paranandi Ravi was a brother, son, and a loving friend to many many people. He always followed what his heart wanted to do. October 15, 2010 SEF Dandia 2 WWW.GIFTOFVISION.ORG Rotary Club: Strengthening Partnership rural outreach pro- Rotary Bus had served over 21,000 gram at the Sankara people, of which 6,600 were provided Eye Hospitals in vari- free eye surgeries. In Coimbatore, the ous locations. visiting team inaugurated another 60- seat bus made possible by a Match- At each of the three ing Grant of approx. $37000. Orrin Sankara Eye Hos- Mahoney, past president of Cupertino pitals visited, the Rotary, spoke for the visiting Rotary Rotary team was able group in commending Sankara’s work. to view the ongoing Thanking SECI, India and SEF, USA, treatment of the free he cited the care for the deserving patients, including and the compassion toward human- The Rotary Club of Cupertino recently surgical operations ity witnessed at all three Sankara Eye concluded a 2-week visit to India and in progress and the compassionate Hospitals as the hallmark of the orga- to the Sankara Eye Hospitals in Anand, care provided before and after surgery. nization and looked forward to a long Coimbatore and Bangalore, where They also visited an eye camp at a association with the Sankara family. they viewed first hand the humanitarian local village near Bangalore, distrib- Impressed with the highly successful work being done to treat the rural poor uted eye-glasses and quilts to children ‘Rainbow’ - children’s eye screening afflicted with preventable and curable in the pediatric ward. Through three program, he expressed the hope that blindness.
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