Sankara Nethralaya USA fund-raiser is a
grand success.
$1.1 million to restore vision to 17,000 patients.
Padma Bhushan Dr. S.S. Badrinath founded Sankara Nethralaya in 1978 with
the inspiration from the speech by Pontiff of Kanchi Kamakoti Mutt. Sole
objective of this organization is to provide world class eye care to the
poor at free of cost and at affordable price to others.
Sankara Nethralaya (SN) is a not-for-profit charity organization providing
ophthalmic (eye) care throughout India. For the last 4 decades, SN has
treated Millions of patients. SN also organizes eye camps, school screenings
and also has eye banks. One of the unique services is Mobile Eye Surgical
Unit (MESU), only one of its kind approved by Government of India. These are
operation theatres on wheels. MESU consists of two buses serving as
operation theatre, which go out to remote villages, screen around 1,000
patients and perform cataract surgeries on 150 to 200 patients over a
two-week period and return to main campus after post-operative care.

Sankara Nethralaya USA (SN USA), fund-raising arm in USA was established in
1988 with the sole objective of raising funds for SN to provide free
services to indigent patients. SN USA is managed by thirty-five honorary
trustees spread across fourteen chapters in US and has been raising over a
Million dollars for the past several years.
In the year 2022 also, SN USA raised USD 1.1 million that can restore vision
to 17,000 indigent patients. Renowned singer and music director, Sri Parthu
Nemani, and Smt Harini Ivaturi along with their music team rendered semi
classical devotional music on December 4th, 2022, which was telecasted by
the following major channels:
ManaTV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EklGCb9v5l4
TVAsia Telugu:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=min5R6hNl_s
SakhiTV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-f2xex8X9o
TV5:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7Sj5yyHusY
Tone TV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxKGlABDAG0
KIW World TV:
https://meworldet.com/home/play-video/686

President Bala Reddy Indurti, President Emeritus SV Acharya planned,
coordinated, and well- executed the SN USA year -end campaign and made it a
grand success.
Thanks are due to singer and music director Parthu Nemani and his team of
Musicians:
Prakash (Keyboard), Srinivas (Flute), Suresh Prasad (Tabla), Swamy
(Rhythms).
Harmony: Students of Keerthana Academy (Bhuvana Swaraja Challa, Meghana
Naidu, Akhil Chandra, Saketh Kommajosyula)
Camera & Lights: K. Rama Naidu
Recording & Mixing: Sai ManoharDubbaka
Editing: Srikanth Pudari
Assistant: Amar Reddy
Sound: Keerthana Recording Studios
Video Floor: String Wings
Thanks are due to fundraising team - Upendra Rachupally, Moorthy Rekapalli,
Leela Krishnamoorthy, Banu Ramakrishnan, Dr. Raj Modi, KG Venkatraman, Srini
Vangimalla, Shankar Setty, Meher Lanka, Neelima Gaddamanugu, Sowmi Narayan,
Shyam Appali, Narayan Indurthi, Vamsi Krishna Eruvaram, Dr. Jagannath Vedula,
Raj Aila, Prasad Rani, Ramesh Chaparala, Srinivas Ganagoni, Krishnaraj Bhat,
Dr. Madhuri Namuduri, and Jayakiran Pagadala for their outstanding
contributions to the 2022-year end fundraiser.
Thanks are due to all Board of Trustees, Volunteers, Philanthropists, and
supporters who are working selflessly to restore vision to indigent
patients.
Thanks are due to Moorthy Rekapalli and Bhaskar Ganti for MESU (Mobile Eye
Surgical Unit) project, Dr. Kishore Chivukula for sponsoring a Consultancy
room, and the following ADOPT-A-Village donors Shankar Krishnan
(California), Dr. Govinda Visvesvara (Atlanta), Leela Krishnamurthy
(Houston), Dr. Raghava Reddy Gosala (Philadelphia), Dr. Kishore Rasamallu
(Atlanta), Murali Sajja (Atlanta), Subrahmanyam Naidu (Atlanta), Ashok
Kanagal (India), Srihari Santhosh (Metro DC), Anand Dasari (Dallas).
President of Medical Research Foundation, Dr. Girish Rao thanked the efforts
of Sankara Nethralaya USA and the generous service of NRIs.
Thanks are due to media partners manaTV, TV5 (Sridhar Chillara), TVAsia (Srinivas
Ganagoni), Sakshi TV, US1 (Simhabaludu), TeluguOne (Subbu Kosuri), KIW WORLD
TV (Srihari Kommineni) for promoting Sankara Nethralaya virtual streaming
concert on Dec 4th, 2022, at different timings to give the flexibility to
all viewers in different time zones.
SN USA, our fund-raising arm in US was given the highest rating of four
stars by prestigious rating organization, Charity Navigator.
Please send Your Tax-Deductible Donation Checks To:
Sankara Nethralaya USA, 9710 Traville Gateway Drive, No. 392, Rockville, MD
20850
Tax ID number: 52-1611548
Questions: indurti@snomtrust.org | Phone: (855) 463-8472 - Toll Free
Please donate online:
www.sankaranethralayausa.org
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Jan-26-2023