22 March,2021 07:09 AM IST | Mumbai | Shunashir Sen
Students at a school that Vision Unlimited runs in NCR
Eyebetes is a Mumbai-based non-profit organisation that combats blindness caused due to diabetes. During the pandemic, its volunteers also started screening citizens for COVID-19, helping over one lakh people.
But one of the people who works for Eyebetes, Dr Shibal Bhartiya, extended her humanitarian work by starting her own foundation, Vision Unlimited, which began with helping migrants with ration and other essentials in the early days of the pandemic, before scaling up operations to start two schools in the National Capital Region for impoverished children.
"Education is what will help us rehabilitate people into the national mainstream," Bhartiya reasons. A third school is on the cards in April, where single mothers will be given sewing lessons to enable them to get steady income. "People go off to sleep once a crisis is over, but we don't intend to become dormant," she says, even as she continues her work in Mumbai with Eyebetes.
