Friends of Tarabai Desai UK
provides free cataract operations to those living below the poverty line
in Rajasthan, India.
Current funding priorities include:
New equipment to enable the hospital to cope with increasing demand.
Tarabai Desai are currently building a new wing at the hospital which
will be open to the public in January 2010. The new consultation and operating
rooms will cater to 15,000 patients each year.
Can you help?
Contact us about supporting Tarabai Desai
Tarabai Desai work with the rural poor in Western Rajasthan, an area which
has the second highest incidence of blindness in the world. They provide
effective and cost-efficient treatment to people with cataracts and other
eye conditions. For the equivalent of $15 per operation, patients can have
their cataracts removed and their sight restored. Tarabai Desai regularly
provides mobile eye camps, and in 2008-9 saw 19,703 patients at 72 eye camps,
performing 2,337 operations.
Our assessment:
- Tarabai Desai is on a mission to eradicate blindness in Western Rajasthan.
They work, on average, 18 hours each day.
- The cost per operation is minimal at $15, and patients receive in-kind
support as well as the service of visiting surgeons.
- Tarabai Desai shares its practice internationally, and has, for example,
helped to advise doctors in Africa.
Quick facts
| Location: |
Jodphur, India and UK |
| Sector: |
Health |
| Annual income: |
$104,750 (30 June 2009) |
| Annual expenditure: |
$106,092 |
| Number of paid staff: |
14 |
| Registration: |
Registered charity number 1100170 |
| Date of most recent contact with Prospero: |
Information update August 2009
Field visit November 2007.
Most recent UK meeting August 2008. |