Prevention and care of blindness

Nation: India

Chennai

Field of action: Health

Referent: Sr. Dominic Mary

STARTING YEAR: 1998
CODE: AS 110

Aim

The principal activity is preventing and caring the blindness. Via Pacis onlus finances the purchase of foodstuffs and medicines for very poor families who live in the shanty town in Chennai. The project consists in domiciliary  visits and programs of sanitary education,  personal and domestic hygiene.

Beneficiaries

Children at risk of blindness, because of malnutrition and lack of vitamins.