Delivery of Compassionate Eye care to the underprivileged

Aditya Jyot Foundation for Twinkling Little Eyes

A Tribute To My Teacher Padmabhushan Dr. S.S.Badrinath….

- Prof. Dr. S. Natarajan

– In this historic year:– Dr Badrinath Sir’s 75th birthday– Aditya Jyot Foundation for Twinkling

Little Eyes celebrating its 10th birthday– Aditya Jyot Eye Hospital celebrating its

25th birthday– Aditya Jyot Eye Hospital serving at

Mahalaxmi temple for 25 years. – Dr Natarajan’s Family celebrating 100

years of charity

• Respected sir,• En Inya pirantha Nazl Vazhuthukkal !

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Dr Sengamedu Srinivasa Badrinath

Chairman EmeritusSankara Nethralaya

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Inspiration

The words of Sankaracharya – the need to create a hospital with a missionary spirit inspired Dr. Badrinath to start a charitable non-profit eye hospital.

Sankara Nethralaya 1978

• “Temple of the Eye” - more than 300 Crore Empire

• Servicing selflessly without any caste, creed or religious considerations.

• Ranked No. 1 in India.

His Message• Not by penance• not by visiting holy rivers• not by reading scriptures• not by chanting mantras• But only by performing selfless

service to humanity • can one cross the ocean of life…

100 YEARS OF SERVICE TO NATION

Dr.S.Nataraja Pillai

Dr.S.NatarajanDr. N. S. Sundaram

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• I WANT EVERY ONE TO LIVE WITH ENTHUSIASAM, BRIDLED  WITH ENERGY, ENJOY LIFE KING SIZE LIKE ME SERVING MANKIND…………..

• MY 33 % time for Charity,

• 33% time for Research and

• 33 % time for patient care- SURGERY………… ……

ABOUT US• Aditya Jyot Eye Hospital is the largest eye hospital in Mumbai founded in

1990. • Aditya Jyot Foundation for Twinkling Little Eyes, a charitable trust,

registered on June 30, 2005 was born out of a desire to give back to society.

Aditya Jyot Foundation for Twinkling Little Eyes

Not for profit body, aiming to redress the suffering of low income groups, marginalized population living in rural and urban slums and tribal areas through free eye camps and free

eye treatment

Gift of visionVision is a precious gift that illuminates one’s world and introduce the joys of the universe which all of us enjoy and take for granted .

We work for those underprivileged who are living in a world of darkness.

• MUMBAI IS HOME TO ESTIMATED 6.5 MILLION SLUM PEOPLE.

• 54.1 % OF MUMBAI'S POPULATION LIVES IN SLUM AREAS.

• ACCORDING TO WORLD BANK STATISTICS THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN INDIA LIVING BELOW RS 50 A DAY IS 267 MILLION, THE NUMBER OF POOR BELOW

RS 75 A DAY IS 456 MILLION .

We aim to put a twinkle in the eyes of the visually impaired through our

service model

Dedicated To Dr. Badrinath sir…

Dedicated To Dr. Badrinath sir…

Our Team• A 20 member strong team

of community health workers working in the slums providing customized eye care to the slum dwellers at their doorstep

• Screening from children to elderly, free cataract surgeries, vitreo retinal surgeries, free angiographies & lasers

• 1,50,000 households in 7 wards of Mumbai covered in door to door awareness program

Our infrastructure -Satellite centre in Dharavi

Satellite centre, Dharavi

Vision centre, MankhurdVision centre at Mankhurd taken on rental basis for serving better eye care

facilities at remote places for low income and needy

people

Our Projects …• Vision impairment due to ageing eye

disease including cataract, glaucoma and other eye diseases

• CREAM – Children's Refractory Error Eye Ailment Management

• DRUMMS – Diabetic Retinopathy Urban Mumbai Slum Study

Our Health workers doing door to door awareness &

motivation

Screening for Diabetes at the doorstep

School screening in progress

Eye screening in progress

Statistics of AJFTLE

ACTIVITIES 2006-2014

School Screening 58,395

Camp Screening 46,659

Cataract Surgeries 4054

Awareness on eye disorders & their prevention150,000 people covered in 7 wards of Mumbai.

Mobile Diabetic Van

Equipped with Fundus camera and Laser

Mobile Diabetic Van

In 2 years 16,000 Screened 600 fundus photos, 112 Angiographies & 53 eyes saved

"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.”

Apart from Helen Keller I’ve learnt this also from you Sir…..