Kalyanam Karoti

Kalyanam Karoti is an NGO working incessantly to help the visually and physically disabled people to lead an independent life. Through well-curated ey Read moree camps and wheelchair distribution campaigns, Kalyanam Karoti has reached out to the communities where there is limited access to eye care and people with a physical disability. Since 1981, Kalyanam Karoti has provided 2,18,367 sight-saving surgeries, 9,44,057 eye check-ups and 822 camps reaching out to millions of visually impaired people across the country. Also, in the last four decades, Kalyanam Karoti has registered 1,15,609 physically disabled people and provided 59,356 wheelchairs to the physically disabled. Dinbandhu Eye Hospital in Ayodhya is Kalyaman Karoti’s giant leap towards reaching the remote communities with the medicine and treatment that can prevent blindness before it happens. Vimal Kumar Sharma was the founder of Kalayanam Karoti. In his young days, he was associated with CM of UP Mr.Chandra Bhanu Gupt (A great politician and social worker of his time) –founder of “Moti-Lal Memorial Society” in Lucknow which is doing fabulous work in the field of education and healthcare. Truly inspired by Mr. Gupt, he believed and lived by the phrase "Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam"( the world is one family). In the year 1980 after the death of Shri Gupt, he went to Haridwar for peace, while walking bedsides river Ganga, donating his sweaters to the shivering men on the roadside and emptying his wallet for buying the milk for starving children couldn't contain the endless empathy in his heart. He decided to dedicate his entire life to transforming the lives of disabled people. He leads an exemplary life and his death too was a gift to society. He lost his battle with cancer but in return lit up the world of two sightless people by donating his eyes. Vimal Kumar Sharma also donated his body to the Anatomy Department of King George Medical University, Lucknow.