‘Save the Sight’ project to be launched today

Source: http://www.hindu.com/2008/03/17/stories/2008031754400300.htm

Belgaum: The National Association for Blind (NAB)-India and “Ankur” a project of Mumbai-based Somaiya Trust, in association with the Belgaum-based KLES Prabhakar Kore Hospital will commission “Save the Sight” project here on Monday.

Announcing this here on Sunday, Cdr. (retd.) Kailash Girwalkar, Director, Blindness Prevention Project of Somaiya Trust, said the objective of the project was to propagate the programme on prevention and curing potential blindness among young children in association with the NAB, an international organisation working for the welfare of the blind all over the world.

The KLES Hospital has come forward to take up the project “Ankur” for implementation in Belgaum, Bijapur, Bagalkot, Dharwad and Gadag districts.

Various international, national and State-level non-governmental organisations, self-help groups, particularly women SHGs, will be involved for effective implementation of the project. That apart, several other hospitals, corporate house and industrial establishments, including sugar factories will be involved in the project.

Under the project, the NAB will provide technical assistance, guidance and support, even as voluntary services from all social and philanthropic institutions, individuals will be taken.
Financial support from sugar factories will be availed of as every sugar unit have set up Community Social Responsibility fund for welfare measures in their jurisdiction. The factories would be urged to adopt at least 10 villages for implementation of the project in their jurisdiction, he said.

Cdr. Girwalkar said the need for taking up the project was felt considering the alarming level of blindness in the country.

Of the 37 million people with visual impairment in the world, 15 million are found in India, of which rural India accounts for 80 per cent.

In India, a child goes blind every four minutes, even as more than 3.20 lakh children suffer from avoidable blindness, he said.

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March month Team meeting on 09th Mar 2008

Dear All,

We had our monthly Team meeting on 09th Mar 2008.

1. During this meeting we disussed following points,
2. Asking for updates from each member about there assigned task status
3. Suggestions
4. Issues
5. New task assigning

Here is a brief update on all the tasks which were assigned to Vvolunteers,

1. First register our NGO officially - By this month's 16th we are registering our NGO
2. Rural development work - Collecting information about one particular village like basic facilities like Transport, road, schools, water, sanitation awareness, spreading awareness about ISD, AIDS, Bird Flu etc - This year on Woman’s day Karnataka Govt has decided to start E-Mahile scheme to help Rural women. For more info see the URL http://vayavya.blogspot.com/2008/03/scheme-to-give-rural-women-boost.html
3. We found one student who wants to seek JOC course in DWD so try to collect information about that student - Collecting more information about the same
4. Plantation information like planting new trees around Ring road in Bangalore, identify one village in North Karnataka and do plantation there (Vanamahostava type) - We are contacting various Horticulture departments & private companies for free tree plantation & maintaining those trees.
5. Contacting with BMTC officials for bus shelters in & around ring road - Contacted BMTC officialls, they told contact BBMP dept for further assistance, still under progress
6. Collecting basics of Eye donation information (Contact info, Forms, Procedures), planning for conducting Eye donation camp also - Collected lots & lots information about Eye donation. Our Vvolunteers visited Narayana Netralaya for getting more information. Most of the Vvolnteers have filled the Eye donation form. But that is not all, only we have finished 1% of the task. We need to make sure that our Eye’s are donated to needy people only. Also we are planning to conduct Eye donation camp in North Karnataka
7. Get more information about Deshpande foundation - Filled the application form sent by Deshpande Foundation, waiting for the reply from there side
8. Collecting more information about people who needs helps like in cases of accidents (Blood donation, moneywise help etc) - Vvolunteers are actively collecting information from Radio, TV, News papers etc
9. Getting more information about Belgaum, Hubli & Dwd for the current ongoing developmet projects, pending projects, promote IT companies to start investing in these areas. -Already started this task, we are maintaining one Blog to update daily news from Hubli-Dharwad & Belgaum please visit URL http://vayavya.blogspot.com

New tasks takem up by the Vvolunteers,

1. Visited Mahila Mattu Makkala Abhivrudhi sangh, Dharawad, collected information - Once the task is in progress will update you all.
2. We will create our own website for updating all the information apart from our Blog.

February Month Team Meeting - MOM

Dear All,

After a very long gap we had a very active team meeting on 17th Feb 2008.

• During this meeting we disussed following points,
• Ideas proposed by the whole team
• Suggestions to improve active team participation in the next upcoming meeting's'
• Issues faced by the team
• And finally task assigning to each & every member

Various tasks which were self assigned to all Vvolunteers members are,

1. First register our NGO officially
2. Rural development work - Collecting information about one particular village like basic facilities like Transport, road, schools, water, sanitation awareness, spreading awareness about ISD, AIDS, Bird Flu etc
3. We found one student who wants to seek JOC course in DWD so try to collect information about that student
4. Plantation information like planting new trees around Ring road in Bangalore, identify one village in North karnataka and do plantaion there (Vanamahostava type)
5. Contacting with BMTC officials for bus shelters in & around ring road
6. Collecting basics of Eye donation information (Contact info, Forms, Procedures), planning for conducting Eye donation camp also.
7. Get more information about Deshpande foundation
8. Collecting more information about people who needs helps like in cases of accidents (Blood donation, moneywise help etc)
9. Getting more information about Belgaum, Hubli & Dwd for the current ongoing developmet projects, pending projects, promote IT companies to start investing in these areas.

Vvolunteers - Third step

Now On 2nd October we have again visited one more "OLD AGE HOME" near Basaveshwar Nagar .This time we are able to sponsor Medicines for around 10 Mentally retarded people for a 15 Days and provided some Food grains.

Vvolunteers - Second Step

A girl named Gayatri from Dharwad who has finished her SSLC this year and has secured fabulous 95%. She is willing to do her further studies, but is not able since she is financially weak. Our volunteers (Kiran and Ravi ) came to know about this through some source and went to their home and asked them what exactly the matter is and in which way they can help her and assured that they will be helping her.

On behalf of the group we paid the amount of her college fees. Now she will be pursing her further studies. She has taken admission in J.S.S. College , Dharwad for PUC 1st year (Science).

Cherishable memories of Vvolunteers

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Our Noble journey started on Thursday, December 14, 2006

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Dear Friends,

" A Journey of thousand miles must begin with a single step"

I am pleased to inform you all that, finally we are going to start a small helping hands, and hopefully in coming days it grows into an organization as a NGO, HELPING HANDS to the needy and unprivileged… [Keep fingers crossed J]

As we discussed earlier of forming an Organization, for the people who are really unable to afford the needs to lead their life.

Our Organization would be strongly built by collecting funds through team work. Each member is liable and willingly to donate according to her/his own interest. (It's your own interest of helping in any sort, that will be accepted, like your old Books, Clothes, etc). This collection of funds will be utilized in different forms like paying school fees for poor student, operation for the poor/unaffordable people and also these funds will be given to the Charity, to Blind School , Orphanage, Old Age Homes, etc.

It is precisely the reason we are calling you as to add about your planning and funds to the Organization. However, in any point of time we would clearly explain how our solutions work and how it will be helpful to poor people. Of course let me assure that you are free to add your thinking and valuable suggestions. We would be very glad enough. Besides what you have found in a grid, can also come up with related too.

In this journey of endeavor to success, be assuring that we would walk hand in hand and scale new heights of the Organization.

" A Ship Is Always Safe In The Shore But That Is Not It Is Built For "

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Officially "Vvolunteers" name was chosen for NGO

Thursday, January 03, 2007
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