At the 18th annual conference of VISION 2020 – INDIA held on 6 & 7 July 2024 at CMC, Ludhiana, Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital was honoured for hosting the national conference in 2013. Shri. A.C. Sadhwani, Managing Trustee, SSEH received the memento. Dr. Rishi Raj Borah, India Country Director, Orbis, and Mr. Kuldeep Singh, Regional Director, India & Bangladesh Seva Foundation presented the memento.
Nisha Solanki belongs to a large family of two brothers and four sisters (of whom 3 are married). Both her brothers and elder sister attend school. Nisha’s father is mentally challenged. The responsibility of earning is on the mother, who is a daily wage farm labourer and grandmother, who tends to her goats. Two earing members for a family of ten.
Blindness in children leads to deep impact on psychological, emotional, and socioeconomic growth to the family. A child with blindness is more likely to have delays in developmental milestones, to be more frequently hospitalized, and die during childhood than a sighted child. Such severe vision loss also adversely effects the educational activities, orientation, and mobility from the early stage of life resulting in lack of employment privilege. These differential characteristics between a sighted and non-sighted child is more obvious in developing countries. Moreover, the disability adjusted life years (DALY) loss in a blind child is far more than that of adults with blindness.