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October 9th 2010 - World Sight Day 2010 - Eyes on the Future - fighting vision impairment in later life.
    
Our Vision
To develop a comprehensive eye care program with community development interventions in urban slums and rural areas to improve the quality of life and give the gift of sight to all.
 
Our Mission
To promote eye health and control avoidable blindness in the entire community through comprehensive health care which will lead to community development and a self reliant sustainable program.
 
Our Goal
To control and prevent avoidable blindness and to provide treatment and rehabilitation facilities to those who have lost vision and give the gift of sight to all children and adults.
   
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Where We Work? ---Dang Tribal Program

  
 
also see Mumbai Slum Program
 
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Dang is a tribal district in the state of Gujarat. The villages of Dang have some of the most poorest and backward populations with almost 60% of them being below the poverty line. These villages are also very remote and lack basic amenities like transportation and health care. 
 
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In 2001, the villages of Dang reported a very high incidence of avoidable blindness in children and adults. They also had very high levels of morbidity and mortality especially in children and women due the inadequate health services. We realised that the communities of Dang faced the triple evils of illiteracy, unemployment and poverty and were trapped in the vicious cycle of disease and infirmity.
 
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Our objective was to improve the nutrition, education, income and environmental sanitation of these communities to decrease the morbidity and mortality and control avoidable blindness, by developing primary eye care as an integral component of primary health care.


     
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We therefore decided to provide comprehensive eye care services with community development in the villages of Dang through active community participation. We initiated and successfully implemented a pilot project in 10 villages and due to the overwhelming demand from the community the program was expanded.  
 

 

  

 

Phase Wise Areas Of Operation (Dang)

Year Of Implementation

1

10 villages

2001

2

21 villages

2002

3

33 villages

2003

4

64 villages

2004-06

5

73 villages

2007
 

 

  
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We are currently operational in 73 villages of Dang
 

 

  
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In order to strengthen the service component of the Comprehensive eye care program in Dang, in 2006 a Vision cum Training Center was built in this tribal region.

The Vision center is utilized for providing primary eye care services to the people from the surrounding tribal villages. And the training center is utilised for training of volunteers and government staff in eye care and health care.  
  
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