Our Impact Stories
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Kiran Khetmalas, born with congenital cataracts in a small village in Maharashtra, faced numerous obstacles in pursuing education and employment due to his...
... Ravindra Tade was born in a small village in Akola, Maharashtra, into a family that relied on daily wages. Despite financial hardships, Ravindra pursued his...
Rakesh Kumar Singh, thirty-four, lives in Kalahandi, Odisha, with his parents, wife, and child. Born with Retinitis Pigmentosa, he began losing his vision at a...
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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