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posted July 21, 2011
Gandham Lakshmi is a 65 year old widow living in the village of Tuni. Her husband, Jeevaratnam, died five years ago, and since she doesn’t have any children, she is totally helpless. She works as a daily laborer to make a living and she earns about $ 1.5 a day. Over the last few months, her vision started going down due to cataracts, and she started getting very depressed. Sankurathri Foundation performed cataract surgery on her free of cost, but she was not able to afford the corrective glasses that she needed.
Your donation, Vikram, made it possible to give her a pair of glasses. Thank you for enabling her to continue earning a living.
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