NIRAMAYA CHARITABLE TRUST

“India has the largest Blind population”Times Of India 2013

Global causes and effects of blindness due to eye diseases and uncorrected refractive errors

CATARACT

GLAUCOMA

AMRD

CORNEAL

OPACITIES

DIABETIC

RETINOPATHY

CHILDHOOD

BLINDNESS

TRACHOMA

ONCHOCERCIASIS

REFRACTIVE ERRORS

OTHERS

N I R A M A Y A Globally, an estimated 120 million are visually impaired because of uncorrected refractive errors (near-sightedness, far-sightedness or astigmatism). Almost all of them could have

normal vision restored with eyeglasses, contact lenses or refractive surgery.

75% of Global Blindness Cases can be avoided with simple procedures !

Lost Earnings

US $: 1781million

Direct Medical Costs

US $: 1824 million

Indirect Costs

US $: 371 million

Cost of Caregivers

+ lost earnings

US $: 845 million

Taxation Revenue

US $: 202 million

Suffering from premature death

associated with visual impairment

US $: 4824 million

according to a(conservative) analysis published in 2003 of the loss of productivity of individuals with visual impairment, the annual global economic impact of blindness and low vision in

2000 was US$ 42 billion. In the absence of any concrete measure to check, this figure was projected to rise to US$ 110 billion per year by the year 2020

N I R A M A Y A

ECONOMIC IMPACTW i t h a p o p u l a t i o n o f 0 . 3 5 M i l l i o n V i s u a l l y I m p a i r e d P e o p l e , A u s t r a l i a i s l o s i n g U S $ 9 . 8 B i l l i o n a n n u a l l y ( 2 0 0 4 )

Visually Impaired Population in India is approximately 15 Million a conservative Economic Impact for India would be in the range of 175 Billion !

NIRAMAYA

A grass root NGO dedicated to community eye care

Niramaya Charitable Trust believes

that Quality eye care is a right for

every Indian citizen, irrespective of

their social status, cast and

demographics. We are committed to

provide world class eye care to

remotest of area, that too at a cost of

$0 (Yes , ) to the beneficiary !its free

In the last decade, Niramaya

Charitable Trust has been successfully

running several Projects and Initiatives

where more than 3 hundred thousand

people have been benefitted with

Quality Eye Care.

We raise awareness about 37 million

Indian Population , living without sight

and invite others to join our mission.

CORNEA TRANSPLANT EYE BANKING

TELEOPTHALMOLOGY AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS

EYE RESEARCH

CATARACT FREE INDIA

NIRAMAYA SOLUTIONS

Corneal transplantation/grafting is a

surgical procedure where a damaged

or diseased cornea is replaced by

donated corneal tissue in its entirety or

in part The graft is taken from a

recently deceased individual

Eye banks retrieve and store eyes for

cornea transplants and research. An

estimated 50 eye banks are necessary

to meet the current demand for eye

transplant tissue Pan-India

Teleophthalmology is a branch of

telemedicine that delivers eye care

through digital medical equipment and

telecommunications technology, which

enables access to eye specialists for

patients in remote areas.

A cataract is a clouding of the lens

inside the eye which leads to a decrease

in vision. It is the most common cause

of blindness and is conventionally

treated with surgery.

Niramaya is committed to stimulate,

sustain and intensify a concerted

research effort, with the goal of

developing preventives, cures and

effective treatments for all diseases of

the visual system that damage and

destroy sight.

For last 10 years, Niramaya has

commemorated National Eye Donor

Month to promote awareness of the

need to donate eyes, to recognize

donors and their families and to

celebrate corneal recipients.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH (PRIMARY EYE CARE)

VISION CENTERS (SECONDARY EYE CARE)

BASE HOSPITAL (TERTIARY EYE CARE)

Niramaya has adopted the classic HUB AND SPOKE Model of logistics, in order to reach remote population. The entire

population area is provided Primary Eye Care via various Community Outreach Programs, thus eliminating the need for

the patients to travel. These Outreach Programs in turn gets connected to small sized sectors called “Spokes” where, the

patients can get Secondary Care for certain complex cases. And eventually these “Spokes” are connected to a central

“HUB”, a center of excellence Eye care Hospital.

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55%$ 2-10 /CASE

33%$ 11-50/CASE

12%$ 51-500/CASE

Good-quality, high-volume cataract surgery can be provided at less than US$ 10 per Case in some settings. Cataract interventions are thus as cost-effective as immunization and can

significantly and rapidly reduce avoidable blindness.

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9,00,000+Impacted lives of

Niramaya Trust has organized over

2500 eyecare and awareness

events in past 10 years. Participants

from all walks on life come

together for the cause and

contribute in their capacity from

donating eyes to adopting a village

for providing eye care.

AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS

WALK FOR VISION 2010Niramaya Trust has a mention in Limca book of records for organizing

largest blind folded walk, spreading awareness about eye donations.

GURGAON CARNIVAL 2011An eye donation festival organized in 2011, reached out to

over 200,000 people with a message to 'donate eyes'.

PROJECT DRISHTI RATHNiramaya operates a mobile eyecare clinic to serve the rural masses

in Haryana. DrishtiRath caters to over 1000 patients every week.

PROJECT PUNARDRISHTIWith project PunarDrishti, Over 500 Cornea's were

transplanted to restore vision at our tertiary care center.

THE WAY FORWARD

“ To eliminate the main causes of avoidable

blindness by the year 2020 by facilitating

the planning, development and

implementation of sustainable national

eye-care programmes based on the three

core strategies of disease control, human

resource development and infrastructure

and technology, incorporating the

principles of primary health care. This will

be achieved by mobilizing will and passion

for action through advocacy and by

mobilizing resources. (Vision 2020 WHO) “

Niramaya is aleady mobilizing its

volunteers and Grass Root workers for the

next phase, where:

100 Seconday Vision centers will be

identified, all across Haryana (Phase 2A)

At least 10 Mobile Eye Care Units will be

launched in next 2-3 Years (Phase 2B)

Tertiary Center of Excellence will be

upgraded and Expanded to cater to

minimum population of 5Million (Phase 3)

SUPPORTERS

The Tej Kohli Foundation has developed a corneal

transplant programme with Niramaya to address

these challenges, both by funding operations, and

raising awareness of the need for eye donation.

Concern India Foundation extended its support to

Niramaya, at the grassroots level in the rural areas of

Haryana through Mobile Eye Care Units.

Niramaya is ever indebted to Haryana Goverment,

for always supporting it, in its various endeavors to

bring Quality Eye care to rural populations. Haryana

Govt. is helping Niramaya develop its Multiple

Teleopthalmic Centers is various Pilot Districts.

all donations are under 80 G Income Tax Exemption

GET INVOLVED

From Pledging your family’s cornea’s for donations, to

weekly volunteer activities to holding an eye donation

placard in your car to getting your workplace behind

sponsoring an entire Eye Project - there are a lot of

oppurtunities to join our mission

VOLUNTEERWe are always looking for help in the Field. Be an

Eye-Volunteer (Eye-Mitra), aware everyone in

your circle about Eye Care, ask others to pledge

for donations, - and learn about various eye

projects at : www.niramayatrust.org

DONATE

COLLOBRATE

100% of your donation will go straight to an Eye

Project to benefit patients in rural areas. Just $5

can provide two people with a gift of vision. Learn

more at: www.niramayatrust.org

We team up with soc ia l ly-consc ious

companies/organisations that are empathic to

our cause. We don’t have one size fits all

approach of our Corporate partnership, instead,

we form a strategy that best supports our mission

to eradicate preventable blindness.

Sponsoring the Rural Eye Check-up camps/day

Supporting a cataract surgery

20,000

4,500

Be A volunteer

Adopt a Village (Community Eye Care) 75,000-1,00,000

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Services INR

Organise a Free Eye Check-up in

your Organisation & Promote Eye

Donations

GET INVOLVED

Supporting a spectacle

Supporting one major surgery like Glaucoma,

Retinal, Keratoplasty, Ptosis, Squint etc.

Sponsoring the Mobile Rural Teleophthalmology

camps/day

General Corpus fund for community outreach

programme

20,000

25,000

5,00,000

500

LOCATION DURATION

Monday Jhajjar/Farukhnagar 9-7

Wednesday Pataudi/Rewari 9-7

Thursday Gurgaon 9-1

Friday Nuh(Mewat) 9-1

Saturday Tauru(Mewat)/Gangagiri Kuttia 9-7

NIRAMAYA SCHEDULE

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CONTACT US

Niramaya Char i table t rust (Regd. )

560/1 Dayanand Colony, New Railway Road,

Gurgaon (Haryana). Tel- 0124-2321234,

ema i l : con tac t@n i ramaya t ru s t . o rg

Helpline nos.- 2254848/ 1919 (from BSNL),

9810134091 (CSR)

REFERENCES: Australian Network on Disability (http://www.and.org.au/pages/disability-statistics.html), Vision 2020 Report (WHO 2006), NSSO Census of India (2001)