Care Netram India

Land of contrasts

Traffic chaos in the extremely densely populated metropolises (here in the old town of Delhi), great nature and traditional rural lifestyle.

Prashant

Prashant Pachisia is our partner in India. He runs a company in the training sector and had been looking for a project for which he could get involved socially for years. As an entrepreneur, he thinks big: after our start in the state of Odisha, he wants to establish Care Netram all over India.

Mobile Teams

The optical teams in India travel in small groups of 5-6 people from village to village and run eye camps there. A camp organizer prepares the campaigns with the local authorities.

Registration

The patients are registered at the entrance, then the vision tests are carried out.

Needle and thread

If people cannot read, a reading test also makes no sense. It is often much more important, especially for women, whether they can thread a needle.

Optical training

The optical professionals are involved in practical exercises and experiments with incredible enthusiasm, which is often missing in many traditional learning curriculums. In the photo, they are experimenting with a paper eye model that Martin Aufmuth developed especially for training purposes.

Kaushalya

Kaushalya, a successful graduate of our first training course, is now a trainer for young women.

Professional support

Debasis is a state-certified optometrist. He attends the training courses regularly, is available for technical questions and has overall responsibility for the success of the training and the quality of the eye tests.

Production of glasses

The production of glasses takes place centrally in the city of Bhubaneshwar. From there, the optical teams are supplied with frames. Tapan (in the middle with the month’s production of glasses frames) is the production manager and therefore also responsible for regular quality control.

Women as producers

Married women in the village traditionally have to take care of family and household. They hardly have any opportunities to earn money themselves. With OneDollarGlasses, they can now produce glasses for a few hours every day and thus make an important contribution to household income. This also increases their reputation in the family.

Everyday life

Hairstylist can see again to cut hair – farmer doing housework – woman can sort stones out of rice again

Holy cows

You meet cows everywhere in India – here on the street in front of our training center.

In the slum

Bhubaneswar, the capital of Odisha state, has several slums. The school in the Salia Sahi slum endures very difficult conditions. A teacher is responsible for several classes at a time. None of the children ever visited an optician. The children eagerly wait for their eye test.

Photos: Martin Aufmuth and Antje Christ, story: Martin Aufmuth

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Our goal: Establishment of an optical basic care for everyone.

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