On November 20th, Richard Meddings, Group Finance Director & Chairman of “Seeing is Believing”, inaugurated the 8th vision centre under the Mumbai Urban Comprehensive Eye Care project of “Seeing is Believing”. The Vision Centre is managed by K.B.H.B Eye Hospital Mumbai.
Mr. Meddings was accompanied by Neeraj Swaroop (Regional Chief Executive India and South Asia, Anurag Adlakha (Chief Financial Officer – India & South Asia), Sreeram Iyer ( Chief Operating Officer India and South Asia) and Geraldine Matchaba (Head Corporate Affairs India). Ms. Pratima Harite Manager Corporate Affairs and Ms Karuna Bhatia Senior Manager Sustainability Corporate Affairs from SCB Mumbai also accompanied the team.
The guests for the event included Ms. Elizabeth Kurian Regional Director Sightsavers, Mr. Shrinivas Sawant South Area Director Sightsavers, Ms. Bhavana Pande Project Manager Mumbai Eye Care Campaign, Ms. Prema Chande Principal Lotus College of Optometry and Ms. Hiral Korani Optometrist Mumbai Eye Care Campaign, Dr G Chandrashekhar Medical Director K.B.H.B Eye Hospital, Mr Gaikwad- KBHB, Mr Deepak Lalge Project Manager KBHB.
The vision centre is located at Kurla (in the central part of Mumbai) and will be operated out of the spacious offices of a local community based organisation (CBO) called Shraddha Pratishthan. This local CBO has been working in the area since 2002 and has been actively involved in undertaking medical camps (with help of leading charitable hospitals of the city),donation of educational materials to needy students, community programmes, cultural and spiritual activities.
The majority of the population who reside in this area benefiting from the service of the NGO are small scale garment industries workers, auto- rickshaw drivers, daily wage workers and their families. Very few NGOs are working in this area.
They participated in the eye screening of patients, distributed eye glasses to them and visited a family in the community with a community health worker to carry out screening. A street play was then performed for the entire team who showcased how the underprivileged could also have an easy access to specialized eye care for a truly negligible cost. Mr. Meddings participated and got oriented with the vision centre procedures and also tried his hands at the process of door-to-door screening.
There were over 100 residents who attended the event;some who were present for follow up and collecting spectacles and many others who were referred to the vision centre for refraction by the health workers through door-to-door screening
Mr. Richard Meddings wrote, “Your work is making a huge difference-individual by individual. Very inspirational!"
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