Hyderabad: First-ever ‘Sight-A-Thon 2018 — a blindfold 2k walk was organized here today by Saksham – Telangana National Level NGO, a Joint Initiative of Govt of Telangana, NPCB and Camba to create awareness on eye donation and to empower the visually challenged.
The walk was flagged off at the People’s Plaza by Tollywood stars Konedala Niharika, Tanikella Bharani, JD Laxminarayana along with Jagadishwar, Principal Secretary to Govt, Janardhan Reddy, HMDA Commissioner, Ram Chandra Reddy, MLA, Mahender Vaishnav and Madhu – Indian cricketers and visually challenged were present.
The 2k Run started from People’s plaza to Sanjeeva Park en route Jalavihar and turned back. Over 2,000 people supported the walk and saw the participants in the walk blindfolded and hand held by visually challenged guide team of blindfolded members in the walk.
“As many people were suffering from blindness right from birth or because of cornea problems, eye donation is the only way to get eye sight to these people”, said Dr Veda Prakash, president, Saksham Telangana, Karunakar, secretary and Dr Santosh Kraleti, National executive member of Saksham. (NSS)
