Project Description Region: Asia Country: India Location: Tamilnadu & Pondicherry Total Budget: $292,000 Area of Focus: Disease prevention and treatment Project Orange (Fighting Avoidable blindness) - 292K dollars: 16 vision centers are to be started in rural areas of RI District 2981 in order to diagnose and treat people with Avoidable blindness. Roughly more than 90 percent of Blindness are treatable through different operations, especially Cataract. All the operations required for their treatments would be free of cost. This would change the lives of thousands of blind and visually impaired people. Primary Host Partner District: 2981 Rotary Club of: Kumbakonam Primary Contact: Balaji Sarangan Email: dgbalaji2122@gmail.com Primary International Partner We are looking for a Club partner. Click here to pledge support for this project. Recording a pledge will make you the Primary International Partner for this project. Project Status Need $142,000 This project needs to receive some pledges to go to the next level. Please check the "Financing" tab to see the list of current pledges. Once the amount pledged is equal to the project budget, the status of the project will be automatically changed to "Fully Pledged". Click here to pledge support for this project. Project listed for the 2021-22 Rotary Year. The TRF Grant application number is #142000.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Remaining Amount to Raise Additional Club Contribution (Needed) - Add a contribution $142,000 - $142,000 Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation - $0 $0 Additional Contribution (not matched by The Rotary Foundation) $150,000 Total $292,000 Note: as of July 1, 2015 there is a 5% additional support fee for cash contributions. This fee does not appear in the financials above because it does not apply if the funds are sent directly to the project account (without going through TRF, and therefore without Paul Harris credit). Clubs sending their cash contribution to TRF must be aware they will have to send an additional 5%.

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