Community Eye Care Foundation (CECF) of Pune is a large, well established NGO serving the eye care needs of a large segment of the community in the Pune and Western Maharashtra regions of India. In 2020, Vision-Aid will join forces with CECF to setup a state-of-the-art primary resource center with a range of valuable core programs from the Vision-Aid model for persons with vision related disabilities. CECF will provide a dedicated space and qualified staff. Vision-Aid will provide CECF with the funding, equipment, devices and training and expertise to establish the first phase of a Vision-Aid Primary Resource Center at CECF . These programs will offer high quality, free and subsidized rehabilitation as well as devices for an estimated one thousand visually impaired persons in the first year alone.The center is dedicated to Dr. R.S Ayyar, who was a renaissance man. Dr. Ayyar overcame an incredible number of challenges including visual disability to achieve excellence in everything he aspired to achieve.
