The Gift of Sight

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Please consider the following appeal to give eyesight to the needy villagers of

India. Please make a small donation & make difference.

Just $80 / Rs.3600 from you can give eyesight to a person who will otherwise be

blind.

Spread the word to all your friends & contacts, so we can get more donations to

serve more poor people in rural India.

Thanks & regards,

Amol.

Let Them See

OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE THE BRAJWASIS

The Bhaktivedanta Hospital is organizing a free cataract surgery camp in

Barsana, Mathura District, every year in Spring. The people residing in Barsana

and the surrounding 120 villages are extremely poor and have no access to

medical facilities. These Brajwasis cannot even afford the five rupees needed

to visit a primary health center in Barsana.

BHAKTIVEDANTA HOSPITAL ANNUALLY PROVIDES CATARACT EYE CAMP AND FREE SURGERY

(Movie clip [115mb] of the Barsana eye-camp 2005:

http://www.shareyourcare.com/AVSEQ01.DAT )

SPONSOR A VILLAGERFOR $80

With your donation the Bhaktivedanta Hospital Camp provides the following care

and services:

_ Eye check-up and treatment determination.

_ Pre-operative check-up

_ We will perform cataract surgery with lens implant for each patient, who

needs it. Our standards and practices will be as high and professional as at

the Bhaktivedanta Hospital Operation Theater itself.

_ A minimum stay of three days is required for each patient after their

operation. Free food and shelter is provided for both the patient and a

relative.

_ We provide a follow-up examination four days after discharge.

_ A second follow-up examination is performed 40 days later.

_ Upon discharge, all patients receive 40 days of referred medicines and eye

drops, a pair of dark glasses and one woolen blanket.

THIS WILL ONLY BE POSSIBLE WITH YOUR HELP

About 200 volunteers, consisting of 10 Ophthalmic Surgeons, 20 MBBS Doctors, 30

Nurses and more than 100 other various assistants and orderlies, come forward

to offer pro-bono service during this Camp. We provide free lodging, healthy

meals (Prasadam) and local transportation. In honor of their services, all

volunteers are invited for two days of visiting the holy places for darshan.

As you travel to the most interior areas of Brajbhoomi, there are no proper

facilities. Bhaktivedanta Hospital is forced to lease simple Dharmashalas to

provide our Eye Camp Services. In order to meet the required high standards of

hygiene we must spend a major portion of our resources simply converting one of

these Dharmashalas into a suitable operating theater.

By the grace of Srimati Radharani, and due to the diligence and dedication of

the hospital's doctors and staff, all of the operations performed in the past

four years at the Eye Camps have been successful. The latest 12 newspaper

clippings images are uploaded to the link:

http://community.webshots.com/album/549200634urciRA

The Bhaktivedanta Hospital began providing these free cataract operations in

1991, then averaging 200 operations per year at each camp. Responding to the

increased need, we have expanded our efforts and practically doubled the

surgeries. We now average 350-400 operations each year.

The cost of cataract operations averages Rs. 3600 per patient, including the

lenses, medication, shelter, food and blankets. Now please, make a small

sacrifice.

 

Send your donation and give eyesight to our less fortunate brothers and

sisters. Just $80 / Rs.3600 from you will save the eyesight of a person who

will otherwise be blind. Consider a one-time donation or commit to a monthly

contribution.

 

Please don't hesitate. Let's join together to help these needy villagers. If we

all do our share, this goal will certainly be reached. Take one step towards

God and He takes ten steps toward you.

Donate Online:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=amol%40shareyourcare

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ency_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&charset=UTF%2d8

Donate offline: Mail your checks favoring _Share Your Care_ to the following

address. All donations are tax deductible - Tax# 56-2340917.

 

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION.

 

 

 

 

Share Your Care Inc.

RR 1 Box 298, Moundsville, WV 26041-9734.

Phone: 304-221-1000.

 

Amol Kulkarni (Deputy Director _ Share Your Care Inc.)

Email: amol (AT) bhaktivedantahospital (DOT) com

website: www.shareyourcare.com

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