Eye Donors Organization (EDO) is a nonprofit established in 1981 that provides free eye care services to underserved areas of Pakistan. It operates eye camps that have treated over 1 million patients and performed 32,000 cataract surgeries. EDO's vision is to help the blind and visually impaired through awareness, rehabilitation programs, and establishing an eye hospital. It aims to prevent blindness from cataracts through free surgeries for the poor. EDO supports its work through donations and appeals on its website and social media.
Eye Donors Organization (EDO) is a nonprofit established in 1981 that provides free eye care services to underserved areas of Pakistan. It operates eye camps that have treated over 1 million patients and performed 32,000 cataract surgeries. EDO's vision is to help the blind and visually impaired through awareness, rehabilitation programs, and establishing an eye hospital. It aims to prevent blindness from cataracts through free surgeries for the poor. EDO supports its work through donations and appeals on its website and social media.
Eye Donors Organization (EDO) is a nonprofit established in 1981 that provides free eye care services to underserved areas of Pakistan. It operates eye camps that have treated over 1 million patients and performed 32,000 cataract surgeries. EDO's vision is to help the blind and visually impaired through awareness, rehabilitation programs, and establishing an eye hospital. It aims to prevent blindness from cataracts through free surgeries for the poor. EDO supports its work through donations and appeals on its website and social media.
Eye Donors Organization (EDO) is a nonprofit established in 1981 that provides free eye care services to underserved areas of Pakistan. It operates eye camps that have treated over 1 million patients and performed 32,000 cataract surgeries. EDO's vision is to help the blind and visually impaired through awareness, rehabilitation programs, and establishing an eye hospital. It aims to prevent blindness from cataracts through free surgeries for the poor. EDO supports its work through donations and appeals on its website and social media.
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Free Eye Care NGOs in Pakistan
LRBT- Layton Rahmatulla Benevolent Trust
Islamabad Society for Prevention of Blindness (ISPB) Pakistan Foundation Fighting Blindness Khyber Eye Foundation Care and Kindness Society Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital
Sight Savers International
Al Ibrahim Eye Hospital Eye Donors Organization
I choose eye donors organization because it is the only NGO which has the most information available on internet.
INTRODUCTION :
Eye Donors Organization (EDO) is an altruistic government assistance NGO, it is
properly enlisted with the Ministry of Social Welfare, Govt. of Punjab. The NGO has been offering important types of assistance from 1981 to the destitute and meriting poor eye patients of Tehsil Taxila, Wah, Hassanabdal, Haripur and several its suburb towns.
EDO was established in 1981, by the most respectable character of Pakistan in the field of training Sqn. Ldr N.A. Ask (Late)Ex-head Cadet College Hassan Abdal and author Principal of Cadet College Pataro (Sindh). After the passing of Sqn. Ldr. N.A. Ask in 1994 the charge of EDO was relegated to Prof. Syed Zafar Ali Shah (Late), who was additionally Ex-head Cadet College Hassanabdal and most noticeable educationist of his time. After the passing of over two extraordinary characters, Prof. Faqir Muhammad Ch (HOD Chemistry) of Cadet College Hassanabdal gave us his full a.0patronage alongwith the Services of his exceptional child (Eye Specialist) Prof. Dr. Muhammad Mumtaz Chaudhry. Presently Mrs. Keaiser Beg little girl of Sqn. Ldr. N.A. Ask driving the NGO as president excellently.
VISION : to help people who suffer from vision related disabilities in under- served areas and make their life independent and dignified. To work for awareness of Eye Care and prevention of blindness by holding seminar and distribution of literature. To initiate program and schemes for rehabilitation of the blinds. To motivate general public for cornea donation. To establish EDO Eye Hospital as a vision rehabilitation Center of Excellence.
to help individuals who experience the ill effects of vision related inabilities in under- served zones and make their life free and honorable.
To work for attention to Eye Care and anticipation of visual deficiency by holding workshop and dissemination of writing.
To start program and plans for recovery of the blinds.
To propel overall population for cornea gift.
To set up EDO Eye Hospital as a dream restoration Center of Excellence.
MISSION : To fight against ever increasing blindness especially in poor areas of
the country due to “CATARACT”, by providing free of cost cataract surgery.
To battle against consistently expanding visual deficiency particularly in poor zones
of the nation because of "Waterfall", by giving liberated from cost waterfall medical procedure. EYE CAMPS Eye camp is a very important project of the NGO through which a team of eye specialists & Social Workers visit to remote areas and arrange eye camps and distribute medicines, glasses to the needy people and also perform cataract surgeries. Under this project the NGO’s performance is as under:
- No. of Eye camps : 80 - No. of Patients treated : 1,035,000 - No. of cataract surgeries performed : 32,000 - No. of spectacles distributed : 31,535 - No. of medicines distributed : 58,500
Eye camp is a significant venture of the NGO through which a group of eye authorities and Social Workers visit to remote zones and orchestrate eye camps and disseminate prescriptions, glasses to the poor individuals and furthermore perform waterfall medical procedures. Under this task the NGO's exhibition is as under:
Q-1: Analysis SWOT of assigned NGO.
S= Strength W=Weakness O=Opportunities T=Threats Q-2:Is there a clear plan for keeping the NGO and its projects sustainable?
Yes , they do have a clear plan for making its project sustainable. They update their budget frequently They are not dependent on one NGO, they keeps on adding more donors which are helping them in making their project sustainable. Saving a little level of the budget for sustainability exercises can guarantee long haul feasibility and effect of both the NGO and its projects. Q-3: Are gender issues well incorporated into the NGO?
Following are the action plan EDO is using to incorporate gender issues.
They are giving equal access to men and women and utilisation of services. Women and men are equally involved in decision making.
Equal treatment is integrated into steering processes.
Q-4: Is the NGO using skills of all the workers to the best of their ability? They are using their worker’s best ability by assesseing their worker’s understanding. They assign project to the workers based on their current knowledge or what they are best at. In this way they are using skills of all the workers to the best of their ability. Q-5: Is there a strategy for fundraising?
Following are the strategy they are using for fund raising. DONORS : by showing their work ( certain eye camps) and achievements to gain the trust of donors that they achieve this in that period that results in donation from donors. SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM : they are also using social media platform to raise the voice to get funds. They made appeal on their website for funding.
Q-6: As a Students please provide how will you be Transforming Community
Services? By giving donations to the needy people By giving our old clothes to the one who don’t have Works as a volunteer in NGO’s. Work as a volunteer at a charitable action. By helping illiterate people how to read and write.
