When a regular eye consultation costs Rs. 500 – Rs.1000 in private hospitals, families living in our slum communities often refrain from consulting ophthalmologists regularly.
This leads to many of them living with undiagnosed but serious eye disorders. They fear that even basic eye treatments and surgeries will set them back by a fortune!
Our VisionRescue medical team has been stepping in to meet this need by periodically organizing free medical camps and health checkups for our children, their parents, and others in need in our target slum communities.
In association with Mumbai Eye Care, we organized an eye-checkup camp in each of our four slum communities in Mumbai.
At VisionRescue we believe in providing quality support services for our children and their families to enable our Beacon Learning Centre children to sustain in their education.
In our 17 years working with children, we’ve seen children dropping out of formal education because their parents fall ill and are unable to work anymore. We’ve seen simple diseases lead to huge healthcare bills that overwhelm families and send them into debt, thus making older children enter the workforce to compensate.
