Sponsor the cost of spectacles for the underprivileged

Impact

Sobha is a 42-year-old and lives in Kusumgram. She works at a small handicraft shop in her village. She had three young children. **Sobha was the only earning member in her family. She had the sole responsibility of their livelihood and of her children's education.**A few months ago, she started to suffer from severe headaches. This affected her focus and precision. **Her headaches and blurred vision hindered her work. It led to difficulties in carrying out her daily chores.**Her supervisors started rebuking her for the errors she was making. She feared that she might lose her job if she continued to make mistakes.**She couldn't afford expensive check-ups with her low income.** She was entirely at a loss, and her condition worsened.One of her neighbors then referred her to the RHCF health center. She decided to visit the center of Rural Health Care Foundation for a check-up. She attended the center once she came to know that the fee charged was nominal and within her reach.The health center clinic was well-equipped with qualified professionals. They guided Sobha and assisted her with a proper eye check-up. **She was given a pair of spectacles at a subsidized rate for correcting her vision.** She was also prescribed with eye-drops and medicines. **The spectacles and medication have helped Sobha regain her vision. Now her work doesn't get affected and she does not live in fear of losing her job.** She visits the health center for regular checks. **Sobha, grateful for the help, now recommends the health center to all her friends and family.****Without simple support like a pair of spectacles, Sobha would have lost her job and only source of income. She would have struggled to raise and educate her children. A simple help she has received has saved her livelihood.**You can also help poor patients get access to spectacles. You can donate so that they can continue to live their regular lives and earn their living. You can give with confidence because every program listed is [GIVEASSURED](https://www.giveindia.org/giveassured).**

About The Program

Rural Health Care Foundation (RHCF) is an organization striving to address the gap in the availability of low-cost primary health care in rural areas. One unit of donation to this program covers the cost of providing spectacles for ten poor patients. This includes frames, lens, charges for fitting lens and packaging of the spectacles as well as traveling, conveyance and other related expenses. The goal of RHCF is to set up primary health care centers in the remotest areas of the country, providing OPD facilities as well as medication to the low income, hard to reach people of India. In each of the centers, the health center has a good eye department with the best instruments to facilitate the doctor in discharging his duty. After the preliminary eye checkup, the patients are given the prescriptions which includes information on the power of the lenses. All the different prescriptions are gathered and sent to the RHCF Head Office in Kolkata. The prescriptions are then sent to the manufacturer of lenses for further processing. After scrutinizing each spectacle, they are packed and sent back to the respective centers for distribution to the correct patients. Spectacles are given to the patients free of cost or at a very subsidized cost. The program has helped 38726 people with spectacles since the inception of the program When you donate to this program, you help an underprivileged patient who can't afford spectacles a chance to see again. This can be the means to their livelihood and the source of income to their family.

About The NGO

Rural Health Care Foundation (RHCF) is a non profit organisation based out of Kolkata. It offers primary healthcare to the underprivileged community through a chain of 15 primary health centres located in remote rural regions of West Bengal and the urban slums of Kolkata. Against a nominal amount of Rs. 60 ($0.89) a patient receives consultation, treatment and free medicines for a week. A project started by two brothers, has now transformed to an initiative serving millions of patients per year and generating employment for many. The organization was set up following the prolonged suffering of one of its founders with cancer, since an early age. This exposed to him and his brother, the lack of quality health care facilities in India, particularly so for the rural poor. The brothers got together with like-minded people and established RHCF which provides low cost, quality health care in rural areas based on a model that is scalable, sustainable and replicable. Anant and Arun Nevatia wound up their booming construction business and started this initiative for the poor. He realised there is no end to money making and he decided to give back to society. Taking this vision forward the brothers started this initiative to provide health care to the poor. RHCF centres run six days a week throughout the year. They have treated over 15 lakh patients in their 15 primary health care centres.