Netram Eye Foundation: Sight to All

Since 2012

Care regardless of the ability to pay

Netram Eye Foundation has organised charitable eye and health camps since 2012, across Delhi and the rest of India, and was registered as an all-India society in 2013. It is the organisation I chose to work through when I left corporate practice: treatment for the underserved, in the most difficult terrain, with medicines, spectacles and surgery provided free where they cannot be paid for.

Along the way we have built a network of partners in government, industry and the community, and run projects across 24 states.

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The Netram Eye Foundation team outside the centre, with the Foundation vans on either side

5,00,000
Eye Mela beneficiaries: 1,00,000+
Children screened, Project Roshini: 28,000
Spectacles given out: 24
States reached: 50+
People at Netram

Impact

Numbers from the field

Sixty mega camps across eighteen states in the Covid pandemic alone. A bus that has run without outside funding since 2020. A school programme named Best Project in Community Health.

Twenty-four states

From Delhi and the NCR to Himachal in the north, Assam in the east, Gujarat in the west and Tamil Nadu in the south: Delhi and NCR, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Assam, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and more.

Hover or tap a state for its name. Shaded states are where the Foundation has worked.

Projects

Eight programmes, one mission

Each one answers a gap in care: children who have never had an eye test, drivers who cannot see the road, patients who cannot reach a hospital.

Dr. Anchal Gupta seated among schoolgirls holding their Roshini screening cards at a school camp

Project Roshini

With Indraprastha Gas Limited. More than one lakh school children screened across Delhi, Haryana and Rajasthan.

Screening for refractive error, with awareness sessions on anaemia and mental health, and around 28,000 pairs of spectacles given out. Named Best Project in Community Health at the India CSR Leadership Summit, 2019.

$Patients at an Eye Mela camp, one being screened on the autorefractometer$

Eye Mela

5,00,000 beneficiaries in 24 states. Eye and general health camps in the most difficult terrain.

Spectacles, medicines and cataract surgery aid, reducing the burden of preventable disease. In the Covid pandemic alone, we organised sixty mega camps across eighteen states.

Chashma Bus

Delhi NCR, since October 2020. A complete eye-care solution on wheels for people who cannot reach a hospital.

Near-vision and prescription glasses, screening, and referral of complex cases, including phacoemulsification cataract surgery at very low cost. It has run without outside funding since it began.

$A patient having her eyes tested on a Topcon auto-refractor inside the Nayan Hans mobile eye-care van$

Nayan Hans

Free cataract surgery. Screening at the doorstep, and the most advanced phaco surgery, free of cost.

Mission 6/6

With Delhi Police. Eye check-up camps inside police stations for the men and women in uniform, with free spectacles.

I Am 6/6

Road safety. A structured programme for truck and commercial drivers at their depots, correcting eyesight with the right spectacles to reduce the toll of road accidents.

Transgender Medical Camp

With the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. India's first mental health helpline for transgender persons.

Started during the Covid pandemic when daily-wage work stopped, in association with NBCFDC and with the transgender activist Acharya Mahamandaleshwar Laxmi Narayan Tripathi.

Two volunteers carrying an oxygen cylinder on a Delhi street

Oxygen Sewa

Through the worst of the Covid pandemic, oxygen concentrators supplied completely free, with doorstep delivery and pickup.

Project Roshni

School eye care and awareness across three states

A collaborative school outreach program with IGL that brings free eye exams, spectacles, and health education to children in Delhi, Rajasthan, and Haryana.

1,20,000+
Children Reached

Schoolgirls holding their Roshni cards, with Netram staff behind them

Schoolgirls holding their Roshni screening cards

Registration at a Project Roshni school camp

Project Garima

Advancing dignity and menstrual health in Odisha

A menstrual hygiene management initiative serving villages in Kalahandi district, Odisha through sanitary napkin distribution and awareness sessions.

36,000Women Supported

Women at a Project Garima awareness session in Kalahandi, holding sanitary napkin packs behind the programme banner

Netram Empower

Building employability for 10th or 12th pass students

A social empowerment programme that trains 10th and 12th pass students through skill development courses, to help them secure jobs or start businesses.