It is often said, “If you feed a person, you serve them once; but if you teach them how to earn a living, you help them feed themselves for life.” In our earlier blog, we discussed the importance of Corporate Social Responsibility in India. CSR contributions are ongoing commitments, and a strategic plan to allocate […]
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in India has seen significant interest for several years as NGOs, companies, social workers, and scientific authors are involved in working towards the betterment of the underprivileged section of society. India is the first country in the world to make CSR mandatory, following an amendment to the Companies Act, 2013. Businesses
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To start with a quote by Winston Churchill: “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” An NGO is a non-profit organization for the welfare of society. Since this is for a good cause, many will join hands. Creating awareness, making people aware of our motive,
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The Eye Donation Fortnight 2019 will be celebrated from August 25th, 2019 to September 8th, 2019. The first eye donation happened in the year 1905. Even after a century we still see shortage of people coming forward to pledge to donate eyes after their life. In India about 1.1 million (source: Eye Bank Association of
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There has been a talk for a long period now as to How to manage Work Life Balance. Especially in urban areas, managing work-life balance has been a huge challenge. Since liberalization the economy has grown in a rapid pace in tune with the global economic conditions. With this phenomenal growth there has been a
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VisionMate Management approached few companies in his professional network to consider eye donation campaign initiative as a CSR program at their respective companies. These organizations well appreciated the step in addressing the social cause. And the management of these companies supported VisionMate by spreading the word within their team members. The following steps were initiated
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In India the corneal blind population accounts to 1.1 million people. Yet there is no significant volunteering to pledge and donate eyes to the blind. The following points could be the reasons for not donating the eyes after demise of a person: Taking the courage to speak to the family about the eye donation in
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The decision to donate eyes must come from oneself. It is known and understandable situation that in the event of demise of a person, the family and friends would be in deep pain. Hence the initiation to donate eyes from the family becomes difficult. In such a scenario what is the solution or approach to
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Main causes of visual impairment are: Cataract Onchocerciasis (river blindness) Childhood blindness Refractive errors and low vision Diabetic retinopathy Glaucoma Age-related macular degeneration Corneal opacities Genetic eye diseases According to estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) Globally, it is estimated that approximately 1.3 billion people live with some form of vision impairment. With regards
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The youth population in general is full of energy. The age and energy levels are such that it would achieve anything in life. Such is the motivation levels. But when a person experiences change with time from youth to adult, adult to a family of his own and then from family life to old age,
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