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We believe that if you aim to eradicate cataract blindness from India you must work in the areas of greatest need. There is no dispute about where these areas are. Yet many organisations choose to fund hospitals in other parts of India or to fund hospitals in the cities of the worst affected states.
No matter how hard it is to reach blind people in the villages in north India, we are dedicated to doing so.
The facts motivate us :
- At least two million people who are blind from cataract in India live in the rural areas of Bihar, Jharkhand and Orissa states.
- They are part of the ‘other India’ that has reaped no benefit from the country’s phenomenal economic growth.
- Up to half the population lives on less than 15pence a day.
The few frontline hospitals succeeding in curing the blind in these forgotten areas need one or both of the following :
- Experienced eye surgeons
- Money to fund the sight-restoring surgery that they offer free to the blind
Second Sight provides both.