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May trip to India: with many surprises.
During our recent trip to India, we made significant progress in finalizing plans for the Green Goutami Building in Rajahmundry. We submitted the final paperwork, ensuring that all minor changes requested (multiple times) by the corporation were addressed. The...
Touchdown in Guatemala-November 2023
We are so excited to share that we have landed in Guatemala to perform vision saving surgeries. This past April we visited with support from the Indian Embassy of Guatemala to screen and diagnose patients with vision impairments. We want to thank everyone that helped...
2023 Impact Report
Download our 2023 impact report and see all the work EFA and Goutami has accomplished working together.
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 director of...
Political Will, Professional Will, People’s Will
Avoidable Blindness Elimination Project
Download the most recent report: Avoidable Blindness Elimination Project in partnership with Kog Kriationz. Learn more about their projects at https://kogkriationznetwork.com/
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...
Ophthalmology Basics
Prevention begins in children According to WHO it is estimated that global costs of productivity loss from vision impairment is estimated at $244 billion.Our Mission We work with the goal of eliminating avoidable blindness and providing high quality ophthalmic care...
Mobile Eye Camps-Rural Outreach
What Drives Us Reaching Rural Areas This Mobile Eye Clinic is meant exclusively for the nooks of rural community screenings. Since the inception of rural eye camps to date we have examined about 700,000 out-patients and have performed about 60,000 surgical procedures....
Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP)
15 million premature babies are born worldwidePrevention is worth a pound of cure What is ROP? Retinopathy of prematurity effects premature babies. If left untreated it will cause blindness for the rest of the child’s life. What is it exactly? When a baby is...
2021 Impact Report
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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...
Eye Foundation of America (EFA) Receives support of AAPI to Provide Vision Care to Millions in India
"American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) is excited to join in and collaborate with the over decades of service to humanity by Dr. V.K. Raju and Eye Foundation of America (EFA) to provide vision care to millions in India," declared Dr. Naresh...
The Man, the Vision, the Task-Elimination of Avoidable Blindness Among Children
While living in London, Dr. V.K. Raju traveled home to India on vacation, where a farmer asked him to examine his eyes. Dr. Raju complied, but without any instruments. In 1977, Dr. Raju returned to rural India with personnel and equipment and offered his first eye...
Eye Foundation of America: Visions of Hope
By Arthur J Pais Dr Vadrevu K Raju has received many honors for his humanitarian work in saving the eyes of the poor not only in India but half a dozen countries ranging from Iraq to America – but the emotions he felt Srinu Muddula, who earned his doctorate in...
DOCTOR CONDUCTS ANNUAL EYE CLINIC IN INDIA
By David Lieber MORGANTOWN - Some West Virginia University professors take their vacations by the pool. Others venture to academic conferences to discuss the latest medical developments over tea and crumpets. But each year an Indian eye doctor who has lived in...
Musings on Medicine, Myth, and History: India’s Legacy
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Musings on Medicine, Myth, and History: India’s Legacy is a collection of fourteen short essays. It presents a holistic view of ancient medical history and Indian developments in ophthalmology, the authors’ medical specialty. Deep respect for their homeland is apparent, as is their concern for sighted and visually impaired patients at home in the United States or on service trips abroad. Readers may be surprised to learn that cataract surgery was first described and performed in India nearly three thousand years ago. Much of current practice in ophthalmology can be traced to medical pioneers in Ancient India. This book is sure to broaden your perspective of India’s contributions to modern health care. But also, in the process, you will become better acquainted with many other aspects of India, which was once the world’s leading economic “superpower.”
Gandhian Way of Life: Life’s Little Rules
Coming Soon.
“Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this (Gandhi) ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth” -Albert Einstein
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