Nayonika - Makala Netra /Chaatra Dristhi / Child Vision
Eye health and Vision have widespread and profound implications for many aspects of life, health, Education in children. Paucity of Eye health experts with accessibility across India poses a mega challenges in Driving Nation in betterment of Vision for Children.
NECT for Government school children have concocted project Nayonika Child Vision which been a successful model in State of Karnataka serving over Million Children and been Scaled across India from South to North.
3 Major Components constitute to hamper Vision in children:
1. Awareness
Majority of Children studying in Government schools were never been screened for eye health and so we came with Idea of serving each and every school with self eye screening tool Nayonika Vision Wall.
Nayonika Vision Wall been installed in all Government Schools and pre screening been rendered by School Teachers. Belgaum district in Karnataka witnessed huge impact with all 4200 Government schools of the District been installed with Nayonika Vision Wall and 6,75,000 children were screened for eye health for the first time.
2. Refractive Errors
6-8% of Children would be identified with Refractive errors and they all need spectacles to be able to have better vision. Children identified with RE would be served with Free Spectacles and Project has supported with free spectacles in districts of Bellary, Belgaum, Bidar, Koppal, Dharwad and Bangalore till date.
Success of Belgaum district been Scaled to 10 Districts of Karnataka state in synergy with Department of Medical Education. Project would be supporting 50,000 spectacles every year to these 10 Districts.
Districts supported: Bidar, Gulburga, Yadagiri, Raichur, Koppal, Gadag, Tumkur, Madekeri, Chamrajnagar, Mandya. Project will be serving 2.8 Million children of Karnataka state from these 10 Districts.
3. Paediatric surgeries
1 in every 1000 children needs Surgery and Project in synergy with Minto Ophthalmology,Bangalore able to conduct over 400 Free Paediatric surgeries and success been scaled to 13 centres across India from Kanyakumari to Kashmir benefitting over 2300 Free Paedetric Surgeries across India.
Project Locations: Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Bhopal, Kanpur, Jaipur, Delhi, Rohtak and Punjab.
Nayonika Makkala Netra/Child Vision - Pondicherry
Project been synergised with India’s Top Medical college- JIPMER – Pondicherry.
Needy children will be supported with Free Spectacles and conduct Free Paedetric Surgeries with support of Lens and Medicines from Nayonika eye care charitable trust.
Children Will walk in every day to JIPMER and undergo free eye screening and Nayonika supports all children with spectacles.
Eye health and Vision have widespread and profound implications for many aspects of life, health, Education in children. Paucity of Eye health experts with accessibility across India poses a mega challenges in Driving Nation in betterment of Vision for Children.
Nayonika Makkala Netra/Child Vision - Pune
Adult Surgeries for Underprivileged been rendered with Divine Blessings of Sadhu Vaswani – KKI Eye Institute PUNE.
Project has conducted over 5000 Adult Free Cataract Surgeries benefitting rural communities from 8 Districts in and around Pune.
Nayonika synergy with Vaswani team initiated during Covid times and continued to serve more needy patients with Adult cataract Surgeries and plan to scale with Children Eye Health.
Nayonika Makkala Netra/Child Vision - Pune
Nayonika Makala Netra been scaled across 24 Districts of Karnataka state
KARNATAKA STATE has over 65 Lakhs (6.5 million) Children studying in Government and Aided Schools. With just over 600 Optometrist (1 Optometrist for every 10,000 plus children) and screening the entire State for eye health is an enormous task and Project NAYONIKA MAKALA NETRA has teamed up with Government of
Karnataka to serve entire State with best eye health treatment.
Project been scaled to serve entire state in Synergy with Directorate of Medical Education with support of Spectacles and Surgery lens for paedetric Surgeries.
Project been implemented in:
- Tumkur District
- Davangere District
- Belgaum District
- Hassan District
- Mysore District
Nayonika Makkala Netra/Child Vision - BULDHANA District - Maharashtra
SBIF Jivanam Suraksha : Eye Health and NCD project been nobled by Health Minister of India Hon Mr Prataprao JadhavJi. Along with Danish Embassy.
Project of Nayonika Eye Care Charitable Trust in synergy with Indo-Danish firm Briota for NCD funded by SBI Foundation
Project would serve 25000 Underprivileged rurual communities of Maharashtra- Buldhana District with over 3500 Spectacles Distributed Free of Cost.
