Eye donation

Giving the Gift of Sight! It's my pleasure to participate in Ammas.com. Thank you for all your answers and support. Here is some information about the Chiranjeevi Eye Bank: Vision To provide sight to visually impaired through collection and distribution of corneas from volunteer eye donations. Mission To educate people about the importance of eye donations. To register and maintain a database of eye donors. To recover corneas posthumously from registered donors, and To distribute the corneas to the needy people. The Chiranjeevi Eye Bank was started in the year 1998 to fulfill the service vision of its founder, the well known Telugu film Star Mr. Chiranjeevi. The first ever appeal for eye donation to the public through media by Chiranjeevi resulted in an overwhelmingly spectacular response of over fifty thousand people pledging their eyes for posthumous use to provide vision to the visually impaired. Chiranjeevi Charitable Foundation through the intensive efforts of the Eye bank has collected 1221 pairs of eyes from the deceased donors who had pledged their eyes and provided vision to 2442 people (Till May, 2007) who were visually impaired. The Eye Bank along with the Blood Bank is administered by the Chiranjeevi Charitable Foundation located at Road No.1, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad.