Kundram Lakshmi is fifty years old, and lives with her husband, Apparao in Mamidada village, Andhra Pradesh. The couple have four children who live separately in the same village. Lakshmi’s husband is a mason earning about $ 4 per day. With that money the couple lives modestly and meet their expenses with out depending on any body.  Up to last year she was able to manage her own chores at home and also help her husband in any way she could. But her vision has dropped since last one year and she found it difficult to manage at home and she felt very depressed.

When she attended the eye screening camp conducted by Sankurathri Foundation in her village, Lakshmi found that she needed corrective spectacles. However, she on her husband’s income, she could not afford to buy her own spectacles.

Your donation, Heather, enabled Sankurathri Foundation to provide a pair of corrective spectacles to Lakshmi. Thank you for helping her see better.

Irapu Bullemma , 50 years, widow is living in the village of Pedapudi. Her husband Lovaraju  died three years ago due to heart attack. She has one daughter who is married and living with her husband. Bullemma is helpless and working as a daily laborer  to make  her living and she earns about $ 3 a  day. But since few months she was depressed as she noticed defective vision in her both eyes and she could not go to work. She also has  no money for medical checkup. At that time she came to know about Sankurathri foundation and visited us. Here she had complete eye checkup and finally she was advised glasses for better vision. Knowing her economic condition we have provided her a pair of glasses with your kind donation.

Thank you Kunal  for your kindness. With your help Bullemma can look after herself now and live in dignity in her old age.

Cataract blindness is very common among poor people living in rural areas. There are no ophthalmologists in the rural areas and because of this reason coupled with poverty several thousands of poor people are remaining blind because of unoperated cataracts. To help such people to become active people in the society we have designed community outreach program where we take the eye care to the door steps of the needy and poor in rural and remote areas.

Under this program our medical team visits a place and conducts free eye examinations to all the people attend those screening camps. All minor ailments are provided with treatment there at the camp site. If anyone requires cataract surgery we advise them and if they are willing we perform all the preoperative testing to verify their suitability for cataract surgery. If they are suitable we advise them to opt for cataract surgery and if the patient is willing we provide the transportation to them the same day to come to base hospital for surgery. At the base hospital we provide all the preoperative testing, food, accommodation, medicines during surgery, Intraocular lens, post operative medications and transportation back to their village free of cost to the patient. In addition, we also provide transportation to the two postoperative visits to all the patients.

Mrs.Kadollu Mangayamma, 60years is wife of Satyam living in village Vulapalli of East Godavari District. The couple have four children three daughters and one son. Usually elderly parents live with sons only but in this case they are living with their daughter because the only son doesn’t care for them. Satyam is a farm laborer  earning about 3$ a day, but he doesn’t have work everyday. As a result he doesn’t have any savings and depends on his daughter’s family. Since last six months Mangayamma has trouble seeing things at home and around. As a result she couldn’t do any work at home. When we conducted an eye camp in their village some of her neighbours alerted her about the eye camp. At eye camp she diagnosed as having Cataracts and because of her poverty we have performed Cataract surgery free of cost to her.

This was all possible only because of your donation. Thank you Kevin for helping Mangayamma to see again.

Lakshmi is 52 years old and lives in Mamidada village with her husband who is a  farm laborer. He earns about $4 per day when he is able to find work. He doesn’t have any children to support him, but with his earnings, he is able to support himself and his wife. Lakshmi doesn’t work since she is not keeping good health.  Till last year she was able to manage her own chores at home and support her husband by performing domestic responsibilities. But in the last one year, her vision has detoriated and she has not been able to manage her daily chores.

Lakshmi  attended the eye screening camp conducted by Sankurathri Foundation  at Mamidada and after a thorough eye examination it was found that she needs corrective spectacles for her well to see again. When we mentioned her about the price of the spectacles she said that she has no money as she is not an earning member.

Your donation, Erika, enabled Sankurathri Foundation to provide a pair of spectacles to Lakshmi.  She is very happy to have her vision back, and is looking forward to resuming her household duties.

Thank you, Erika.

Dear Kevin,

Twelve year old, Gowri Parvathi, is the youngest of three children. Her father works in the fields on daily wages and earns a meager sum of about $3 per day. He doesn’t have a steady job and struggles to support his wife and three other children with his earnings.

Under such circumstances education is never a priority for parents who believe that by sending the child to work, they can make some money to supplement the family income.

Thus there are many children in the rural areas who are drop outs of education because of their parents§ economic conditions. Sarada Vidyalayam is helping such children to complete their education without any financial burden to their parents.

The school maintains a very strict curriculum and provides quality education and imparts good discipline and values to groom them as good citizens.

Gowri is studying in the sixth grade at Sarada Vidyalayam, a school run by Sankurathi Foundation.

Your generous donation, Kevin,  will enable Sankurathri Foundation to provide an entire year of education to Gowri Parvathi.

Thank you, so much for this wonderful gesture!

Seventy year old Veeramma, is an old widow living in the village of Sampara, in coastal Andra Pradesh.  After her husband’s demise, she has been staying with her son’s family, for the last five years. Up to last year she was able to manage her own chores at home and also help her daughter-in-law with domestic work. But slowly her vision started diminishing and since the last one year and she found it difficult to manage at home and was very depressed.

In one of the eye camps organized by Sankurathri Foundation in her village, Veeramma was examined and was found to have refractive error. She needed a pair of corrective glasses to be able to see well. Veeramma, who was already operated once for cataract about five years ago was wearing glasses, until her grandson broke them. With no source of income or savings of her own, she had no money to buy glasses and did not want to burden her son.

Your generous donation, Jyothi, enabled Sankurathri Foundation to provide her a pair of much-needed glasses with which she can now see clearly.

She is very grateful to you, for this thoughtful gesture and can’t thank you enough!

Thank you, Jyothi!