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Philanthropist Manu Vora was conferred a Paul Harris Fellow Medal by Rotary Club of Naperville for 26 plus years of dedicated service to the Blind Foundation for India (BFI) at an awards ceremony held at Mason Sabika Restaurant, Naperville, Illinois, May 21. He was among 10 individuals receiving this award before 120 guests.
Paul Harris Award winners are selected in various categories such as club, community, international, vocational and youth service. Vora was selected in the international service category for his tireless efforts to alleviate sufferings of over 15 million blind people in India accounting for one-third of the world’s blind population. His work as a chairperson of the “Save The Children Holiday Fund Drive” at AT&T Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies from 1986 to 1999 sponsoring 52 children in 19 countries around the world was also recognized.
In operation since 1989, BFI’s mission is to prevent and cure blindness, educate and rehabilitate blind individuals in India. To date, BFI has raised over $4 million to benefit over one million people with visual impairment in India. With support from BFI, medical partners in India have performed over 125,000 free cataract operations, examined over 750,000 school-going children in public schools for eyesight issues, provided 10,000 Braille kits and donated 115 mobile vans to transport eye doctors to villages and patients to eye hospitals for cataract removals.
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