Sagar Trust (Est. 2009)
Quality Eyecare and Holistic Care for underprivileged and marginalized communities through an impactful, cost effective, holistic model
What We Do
Sagar Trust contributes meaningfully to the national initiative for combating reversible blindness as well as social empowerment through comprehensive eye care provided free of cost through camps conducted at the doorstep of the community wherein medicines, tonics and spectacles are provided on-site along with counseling and support for social challenges faced by the patients.
A wide range of surgeries are provided for the economically underprivileged at our center.
Our camps follow an impactful, cost saving medico-social model.
The Sagar Trust model of welfare beautifully encapsulates the WHO policy of integrated people-centered healthcare.
We focus specially on vulnerable groups like sex workers, marginalized women in resettlement colonies and daily wage earners. We have frequently worked with victims of abuse and intimate partner violence. In the COVID-19 era our camps incorporated education about COVID related hygiene and distribution of sanitation products and will be conducted following the social distancing and hygiene methods for safety.
Our current camps are 'green camps' where we present the beneficiary with a green plant and explain to them how plants add greatly to our health by generating oxygen apart from providing food/shelter/medicines and generating all the weather phenomena of course. This is our way of participating actively in mitigating the climate crisis.
A glimpse of our work - more details can be seen under the 'activities' and 'special projects' pages
The communities we serve and our team weather and adapt to the changes around us together. Our camps in the Covid Era will include education about Covid hygeine and distribution of Covid related hygeine and safety materials.
We participate actively in helping generate awareness about the planetary climate crisis by carrying out 'green camps' where all the eye and holistic health camp beneficiaries also receive a green plant to nurture
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Through our ABEM project for children
we reach underpriviledged children like Zoya (name changed) She had bilateral cataracts at the age of 11 and was unable to walk when she visited us. We supported her with bilateral cataract surgeries that helped her gain useful vision, physiotherapy to make her lower limbs strong, and educational resources. |
For many of the communities we serve at their doorstep, taking out time from their chores and being asked after their health is a welcome and rare luxury
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Our patients define the path for us sometimes. A young one eyed teenager who found even normal light painful (after living in the darkened interiors of brothels for several years) led us to do our next project in the red light area of Delhi so that we could help more girls like her
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List Of Partners And Donors
A list of close to a hundred donors who have supported our work is listed below-both individuals and organizations
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