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Business News/ News / India/  Rekha Jhunjhunwala joins Board of Trustees at SEFI
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Rekha Jhunjhunwala joins Board of Trustees at SEFI

Rekha Jhunjhunwala will continue the philanthropy work that Rakesh Jhunjhunwala had initiated with SEFI earlier

Rekha Jhunjhunwala joined the Board of Trustees at Sankara Eye Foundation India (SEFI) - Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Medical Trust on March 20.Premium
Rekha Jhunjhunwala joined the Board of Trustees at Sankara Eye Foundation India (SEFI) - Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Medical Trust on March 20.

Rekha Jhunjhunwala, the wife of late legendary stock market honcho, investor and philanthropist, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, has joined the Sankara Eye Foundation, India (SEFI) as Board of Trustees. Rekha Jhunjhunwala will continue the philanthropy work that her husband had initiated with SEFI earlier. Her charitable initiatives include contribution towards healthcare and education and she has supported multiple organizations involved in these domains.

“I would like to thank Chairman SV Balasubramaniam and Founder & Managing Trustee Dr RV Ramani for giving me an opportunity to serve the under-privileged as part of the Board of Trustees. As far back as 1977, Dr Ramani unveiled a Mission of working for the poor. I am happy to say that the Foundation has now established 13 eye hospitals in the country, committed to providing world class treatment to the needy. The Foundation has already undertaken 2.2 million (22 lakh) free surgeries so far and will continue to undertake 2.5 lakh free surgeries this year. There cannot be a better vision than this and I would like to wish SEFI and Dr Ramani, greater success, " Rekha Jhunjhunwala said.

Dr RV Ramani, Founder & Managing Trustee, SEFI, said: “We warmly welcome Rekha Jhunjhunwala to the Board of Trustees, SEFI. She is a person of great stature and is deeply committed to helping the economically weaker sections of the society. We would like to acknowledge the efforts put in by her Late husband, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, to establish and support the R J Sankara Eye Hospital, Panvel, and the upcoming 225-bed R J Sankara Eye Hospital in Varanasi. We look forward to her valuable guidance to the Foundation."

As part of its various outreach programmes, Dr RV Ramani launched Gift of Vision to ensure high quality, cost effective, readily available eye care at the doorsteps of Rural India.

“Rainbow" Preventive Eye Care Programme for School children, “Swagatham" for the new born are ongoing preventive eye care initiatives. “Maitri" programme is a comprehensive rehabilitative program for the incurably blind. “Vision Care Technician Training" is an ophthalmic vocational course to empower young women from the poor socio-economic sections of society.

The upcoming hospital in Hyderabad will function on a unique hybrid model, wherein the needy poor from the villages constituting majority of the beneficiaries are totally provided free eye surgeries, while the middle income and the affluent, the affordable sections of the society will pay for their treatment.

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Published: 20 Mar 2023, 04:26 PM IST
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