NYSASDRI is associated with international non profit volunteer organisation Unite For Sight. This is in consonance with the vision and mission of KEHRC to provide eye care to the poor and affordable people in the world. Volunteer teams from Unite For Sight work with the staffs of KEHRC to provide eye care and eye health education programs. The volunteers work on several areas in both hospitals and out reach activites. In return they get to know the cultural setting, prevalent medical practice as well as the issues of eye care in Orissa as a whole. Through this volunteer participation in the eye care thanks to the effort of Unite For Sight, KEHRC offers best of services and medical deliverables to the people on a low cost.

In return the volunteers also devote their time, labour as well as eye glass for poor patients having low refraction. For every volunteer who come to India, UFS supports $ 1000 to KEHRC. This additional fund generated by KEHRC helps itself to perform additional no. of surgeries and come to aid of the people.

The eye clinic’s eye doctors and Unite For Sight volunteers jointly participate on community based screening programs and camps. NYSASDRI’s eye doctors diagnose and treat eye disease in the field, and surgical patients are brought to the eye clinic for surgery. Unite For Sight funds the surgeries for those patients unable to afford eye care. This partnership between Unite For Sight volunteers and KEHRC enables sustainable programs while simultaneously reducing the barriers to health care, including financial, transportation, cultural, and education hindrances. Unite For Sight’s model also reduces costs and expands the ability of all people to “Unite For Sight” and help in the fight against blindness.

UFS has been already generous enough to sposer more than 621 surgeries since Oct 2005. We are also thankful to UFS that it is also proffering 400 more surgeries during the month of Nov-Dec 06 at the cost of 10 $ per surgery.KEHRC believes this support rendered by UFS will go a long way in creating a vision enbling enviornment for the people with vision disability. Apart from this UFS is also wishing to send more no of - volunteers to help them getting exposed to the eye care issues and services in Orissa