Three vision centres were opened in the month of March, 2022. This will access eye care facilities at the primary level. With this the total number of vision centre is 39.
On International Women’s Day, 8th March, 2022, a vision centre was inaugurated at Bankhedi, District Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh. Mrs. Sunita Badhwa Block Education Officer and President of Mahila Mandal, inaugurated the vision centre. This 37th vision centre is in support of Mission for Vision and Wen Giving Foundation.
On 31st March, a vision centre, supported by CBM was opened at Vidisha, Bhopal district, Madhya Pradesh. MLA, Shri Shashank Bhargava inaugurated the vision centre. The inaugural ceremony was presided over by Chairperson, Vidisha Vyapar Mahasangh, Shri Munna Lal Jain. Shri Manoj Katare, BJP representative; Office bearer of Sindhi Panchaya, Shri Harish Wadhwani and Trustee, Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital, Shri Awatramani graced the occasion.
The 39th vision centre at Neelbad in Bhopal district is operational. It is also supported by INGO CBM.
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.