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
donation.
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.
The Trust through the intensive efforts of the
Eye bank has collected 775 pairs of eyes from the deceased donors
who had pledged their eyes and provided vision to 1550 people
who were visually impaired.
The Trust wishes to appoint counselors in each
district to create awareness about eye donation and encourage
the immediate family members of those donors who pledge their
eyes to extend their cooperation to collect the eyes on the demise
of such donors.
The Eye Bank along with the Blood bank is administered
by the Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust, located at Punjagutta, Hyderabad
.
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