Our Club members reached Naldurg in Solapur on 24 March along with the Mobile Eye check up Van of Eye Care Foundation with four doctors and four helpers.We started the day with camp at ZP school Naldurg, Marathi and Urdu, at 10 am on 24th morning and slowly we got the momentum. At 11.0 am we joined a big inaugural function organized by Al- Hasnat Trust, Naldurg in the school where president of Naldurg Nagar Parishad officially inaugurated the camp. More than 20 eminent guests were present . They were surprised with RCPD initiative of coming all the way from Pune for their school children and taking care of youth of their area who are the futures of the country. The entire doctors team were divided into three groups and each group were assigned different schools for check up. By the evening 5 pm we were able to finish six schools, 1126 children were screened and 60 students were found in need of specs which would be given to them free from our club.we were completely wrong when Dr. Minhaz invited all of us to visit his Grape Farm. Second day started . we reached National Marathii Shala at 10.00am and started the camp. In between another team had to rush to Swami Vivekananda English School as we got a call from them that school will be over in next one hour. In an another eventful day, running from one school to other, we could complete another 10 schools and 1347 students and 58 children were found requiring free spectacles. At 10.30pm Dr. Minhaz came to our hotel and invited all of us for next day breakfast at Dr. Ambedkar English School where the principal wanted to show his gratitudes. And next day at 8.30am we reached the school. We immediately moved to Andur village, 4km from Naldurg, where Principal and entire school staff of Jawahar Madhyamik and Uccha Madhmik school were waiting for us. This school is located in a big temple premise which was something new for us. After a small felicitation ceremony we started the camp in two teams in temple premises. By 3.30 pm we were able to finish two schools and our final tally was touching 18 schools, 3815 children and 171 spectacles. Needless to say that the figure was beyond our expectations and nothing to talk about the great hospitality offered to us in last three days. The biggest satisfaction was that we could screen the entire school children of this area. Total no. Of Schools visited in the area 18 Total no. Of children screened. 3815 Total no. Of specs given free. 171
Start Date | 24-02-2016 |
End Date | 26-02-2016 |
Project Cost | 80000 |
Rotary Volunteer Hours | 0 |
No of direct Beneficiaries | 3815 |
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Project Category | - |