Rutgers-Oral History Archive

The original interview may be viewed at:  https://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/alphabetical-index/interviewees/64-text-html/2715-raju-v-k Description: Vadrevu “VK” Raju, MD, FRCS, FACS, is a surgeon and humanitarian who is a university professor and founder and...
Meet Asifa

Meet Asifa

Little Asifa, is from a mandal near the river town East Godavari, India.    Asifa developed strabismus, a condition that caused her eyes to look in two different directions when focusing.    She was too young to realize that her blurred vision was a symptom that...
2021 Impact Report

2021 Impact Report

See the Latest in Childhood Blindness PreventionDownload our 2021 impact report and see all the work EFA and Goutami has accomplished working together. Download...
Sounding the alarm bells over diabetes in India

Sounding the alarm bells over diabetes in India

Quietly, but steadily India-born Dr V K Raju has created a movement focussing on the urgency of containing the potential diabetes epidemic in India. The International Diabetes Federation estimates that nearly 20 percent of the world’s population with diabetes (61.3...