Arigala Nageswara Rao, 65 years, a poor farm laborer living in a
village Ramakrishnaraopeta. He has two sons & one daughter who are
married and living with their families. Nageswara Rao and his wife are
living below poverty line because his monthly earning is only $ 30. His
children are not looking after them.
Suddenly he lost his vision because of cataracts in both eyes. When He
attended our free eye screening camp we have identified him and
brought him to our hospital for Cataract operations. As he is a poor
man we have performed free Cataract operations for him in both eyes
because of your donation.

Thank you for your kindness. With your help Nageswara Rao can be happy,
see better and can also make a decent living by earning his livelihood.

Kalinaru Varshini studying second grade at Sarada Vidyalayam. Her
father is Mr. Kumar works in a local company for a salary of $ 45 per
month. Varshini has also one younger brother and mother at home and
they all live in village Penumarthy. In addition to these members Mr.
Kumar also has to look after his sick mother at home which costs lot
of money for medications.

Under such circumstances education is never a priority for them and if
they send the child to work she can make some money to supplement the
family income. In this manner many boys and girls in the rural areas
are becoming child laborers and supporting their families.

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 provides not
only free education, but also provides free books, uniforms, school
bags, a pair of sandals, transportation, nutritious lunch, milk,
medical check ups, medicines to all the children.

Most of the rural children are undernourished and underweight. As they
don’t eat nutritious meals we are providing lunch and milk at the
school for these children. With these supplement these children look
healthy and happy. Despite her poverty at home Varshini is a very
happy child.

With your assistance we can provide lunches to Varshini so that she can continue her studies.

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 un operated 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.

Ravi Gangaraju, 70 years, a poor farm laborer living in a village
Prathipadu. He have two sons who are married and living with their
families. Gangaraju earns about $ 30 per month. He is suffering with
defective vision in right eye since 1 year. When he attended our free
eye screening camp in Kondayyapalem we have identified and brought
him to our hospital for right eye Cataract surgery. As he is a poor
man and cannot afford to pay we have performed free Cataract surgery
for him in right eye because of your donation.

Thank you for helping Gangaraju to see better and also make a living
so that he can support his wife.

Thank you for coming together to restore her vision to Ravanamma.

Sixty year old Mora Ravanamma is a resident of Kondayyapalem village in Andhra Pradesh. Her husband Simhachalam is physically handicapped, and they have one son and one daughter. The couple lives with their son, who works as a motor mechanic. Over the last few months Ravanamma’s vision has been dropping due to cataract, and she was nearly blind in both eyes, which made it difficult to look after her husband.
Thanks to your generosity, Sankurathri Foundation was able to conduct a cataract operation on her. Your gift also paid for post operative care, medicines and two follow up visits. Thank you for giving Ravanamma back her independence.

Thank you for providing a pair of glasses to Raya Suryanarayana.

Raya Suryanarayana is a 60 year old man from Thimmapuram village. He has three daughters and one son, but he and his wife live separately from their children. Earlier he worked as an agricultural laborer, but with his vision going down due to old age, he hasn’t been able to find work for the last two years. He could not afford to buy corrective glasses, but because of your generosity, his vision has now been restored. Thank you.

Thank you for gifting a pair of glasses to Venkanna.

Dwadasi Venkanna is a 70 year old resident of Chebrolu village in Andhra Pradesh. He is a laborer and earns approximately $ 40 per month which puts him below poverty line. Venkanna has two sons who are married and living with their families.

Suddenly he lost his vision and couldn’t go to work. So he came to our eye screening camp for eye examination. We diagnosed his problem as refractive error. With corrective glasses he can see well. Hence we suggested to him to buy a pair of spectacles. As he can’t afford to purchase spectacles based on his economic condition we have provided a pair of spectacles because of your generosity.

Thank you for gifting a pair of glasses to Vanum Sathi Raju.

Eighty-six year old, Vanum Sathi Raju is a resident of Kothapalli village. He is a laborer who earns about $ 35 per month. Sathi Raju has three sons and one daughter who are married and living with their families. Sathi Raju lives with his youngest son. Sathi Raju came to our eye hospital with a complaint of defective vision. After complete eye examination it was established that he needs spectacles to correct his poor vision. When we mentioned him about the price of Spectacles. He said that he has no money as he is not an  earning member and based on his economic
condition we have provided a pair of spectacles to him because of your
donation.

Thank you for helping Sathi Raju to see better.

Thank you for coming together to gift an entire year of lunches to Jaggarapu Sowjanya.

Sowjanya is a seven year old, girl student studying in grade 2 at Sarada Vidyalayam. Her father works as a security guard and supports his wife and another sister. The family lives in Thammavaram and the father earns about $ 40 per month. It is very difficult to maintain the family and education of his two daughters with his earnings.

Your generosity will enable Sankurathri Foundation to provide a nutritious school lunch, and a glass of milk to Sowjanya everyday for an entire year.  This is the only proper meal that she has in the entire day, and is a big incentive for her parents to send her to school.

Thank you.

Thank you for gifting a cataract surgery to Mahalakshmi.

Moggi Mahalakshmi has two sons and she has been living with her son’s family ever since she became a widow ten years ago. At times she feels that she is a burden on her son, but since she has been a house wife all her life, she could never contribute financially to running the household. She, however, has been helping her son’s family at home.
Unfortunately for the last one year she couldn’t work at home either because of her poor eye sight and that made her very depressed. When she was so depressed her son escorted her to our free eye camp, where she was advised to undergo cataract surgery. Your generosity enabled Sankurathri Foundation to perform a cataract surgery on Mahalakshmi. The donation also covered the cost of post operative care, medicines and two follow up check-ups.

Thank you for helping Mahalakshmi. She felt very happy because of your help. She hopes to assist her daughter in law in house work.

Thank you for donating a pair of glasses to Ramarao.

Darla Ramarao is 63 years old and lives in the village of Pavara in Andhra Pradesh. He works as a farm laborer, and his monthly income is about $ 30 per month. His wife and he live below the poverty line. He has two sons, both of whom are married and living with their families.

When Ramarao lost his vision, he knew he could not afford a pair of corrective glasses, and he is thankful to you for gifting him a pair of corrective glasses. Thank you for restoring his vision and his livelihood.