Childhood Blindness
Awake Vishwa Seva Foundation (R), with its welfare interventions focused on visually challenged students and their families, responds to the call of humanity in times of such calamities under its Disaster Response.
To maximize our impact on reducing child blindness, Awake Vishwa Seva Foundation (R) releases grants to small Awake Vishwa Seva Foundation (R) - based and international organizations to support the Program's goals. Applicants are encouraged to consider strategic partnerships, leverage expertise from other organizations and promote local systems strengthening. Stay tuned for information on our next round of grants.
Examples of the Child Blindness Program's work include providing sight-restoring surgery, screening visually challenged students for eye diseases and conditions, delivering eyeglasses and visual aids to schools, providing education and rehabilitation services for the blind, assessing innovative technologies to improve service delivery, providing eye health education, and training medical staff and community-based workers.