Our Impact Stories
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In Khagaria district of Bihar, Mohammad Nazmi lost his sight in 2011 due to complications from a fever and its medication. Growing up in a low-income household—his father working as a labourer and the family relying on a Divyangjan pension of Rs. 400—Nazmi encountered several challenges along the way.
Yet, his determination shone through. Despite the challenges, he completed his 10th... -
Fifty-six-year-old Tasneem Raja was born with Nystagmus, a visual condition causing involuntary eye movements, in Pune, Maharashtra. Her condition significantly impacted her ability to handle bright lights and move around independently from an early age.
Despite enrolling in school, Tasneem faced discrimination when a new principal forced her to discontinue her education in the 9th... -
At age four, a severe fever took away Phool Jahan's eyesight. Growing up in a large family with limited means, she watched from the sidelines as her twelve siblings went to school while she remained at home, the chance for corrective surgery slipping away due to financial constraints.
Life changed in 2018 when Phool Jahan, now thirty-one and married to a daily wage laborer in Thane,... -
Vaishali Gopnarayan, a twenty-two-year-old from a small village in Akola, Maharashtra, was born with low vision due to a genetic condition that also affected her mother and brother. Her father, a daily wage laborer, struggled to provide for the family, limiting Vaishali’s access to education.
Despite the challenges, Vaishali attended a special school for the blind, mastering Braille and... -
Twenty-five-year-old Pramod Kumar was born sighted into a farmer family in Fatehpur district of Uttar Pradesh. At the age of five, Pramod had a reaction to some medicine that resulted in vision loss. For the next several years, his parents kept shopping for medical solutions to fix his eyesight but to no avail.
During this time, Pramod didn’t go to school and was confined to his home.... -
Twenty-eight-year-old Dr. Gauri Vivekanand Swami, born to government teacher parents in Latur, Maharashtra, faced her first vision challenge at age six with Amblyopia and myopia in her left eye. Despite early treatments at L.V. Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad, complete recovery remained elusive. Inspired by her grandfather, a science teacher, she pursued medicine at Vilasrao Deshmukh...
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Twenty-five-year-old Vidyasagar hails from Satna district in Madhya Pradesh. He was born with a degenerating eye condition call Retinitis Pigmentosa, which results in gradual sight loss. He belongs to a low income family, where his father works as a daily wage labourer to support the wife and their three children.
Vidyasagar’s parents enrolled him in the National Association for the... -
Twenty-seven-year-old Shrikant Pandey resides with his family in Bastar, Chhattisgarh. His father runs a cosmetics shop and his brother operates a mobile store, both small businesses taking care of the family’s needs.
Born blind, Shrikant studied in a mainstream school up till Class 5. But like any other blind student, the lack of accessible teaching method and study material made it... -
Twenty-eight-year-old Parvesh Alam lives with his mother, sister and brother in Shravasti, Uttar Pradesh. He lost his father a few years ago. Parvesh started to lose his eyesight at the age of 14, due to an eye problem called Glaucoma. This brought an unexpected halt to his studies in the mainstream mode. Neither Parvesh nor his family were aware of possibilities of education and employment,...
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Twenty-three-year-old Pravin Borse is a resident of Jalna, Maharashtra. He was born with an eye condition called Retinitis Pigmentosa which results in gradual vision loss. Pravin started his education journey in a Marathi medium school despite challenges with low vision. He suffered another blow when his father passed away, leaving his mother as the sole breadwinner. Battling financial...
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