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Awareness. Early detection. Timely care.
Everyone deserves the chance to live a healthier life—with sight, dignity, trusted knowledge, and timely care.
Our work
Our programmes connect trusted health education with screening, community support, timely referrals, and healthier lifestyles.
Flagship initiative
A movement to educate and empower families, enable timely ROP screening, and help premature babies access the care they need.
Community health
A growing health initiative built around education, prevention, timely action, and healthy lifestyles—including yogic practices—for healthier communities.
Follow the initiativePublic awareness
Taking practical, trusted health information into hospitals, schools, colleges, clinics, and neighbourhoods.
Partner with usFrom the field
Walking together for awareness, prevention, and timely care.
A field note about the people who make early screening possible.
Training local health workers to carry trusted information forward.
Who we are
Our vision
Our mission
To create a future where no one loses vision due to preventable or treatable eye conditions by promoting awareness, early detection, timely care, and strengthening community-led health systems.
Our values
The belief behind our work
Every year, millions of people experience vision loss and other health challenges that could be prevented or better managed through awareness, early detection, and timely care.
At Aaronya Foundation for People, we believe that healthcare should not begin when a disease becomes severe—it should begin much earlier, with knowledge, awareness, and timely action. When people have the right information and support at the right time, they are empowered to make informed decisions, seek timely care, and lead healthier lives.
That belief inspired the creation of Aaronya Foundation for People—to bridge the gap between communities and healthcare through prevention, education, early intervention, and the promotion of healthy lifestyles, including yogic practices.
Today, our work goes beyond treatment. We partner with communities, healthcare professionals, institutions, and government systems to strengthen awareness, improve early detection, support timely referrals, and ensure that every individual—especially those in underserved communities—has the opportunity to live a healthier life with dignity.
A small window for a lifelong difference
Retinopathy of Prematurity is an eye disease that can affect premature babies. It often has no visible warning signs—but early screening and timely treatment can protect a baby's sight.
Families and care teams need clear information from the earliest days.
A timely eye examination is essential because ROP cannot be identified by appearance alone.
Continued check-ups and care help doctors act at the right moment.
Awareness
creates the
first line of care.
Impact with proof
Aarónya's impact dashboard will bring together verified program data across eye health and preventive healthcare, field photographs, and partner updates in one transparent view.
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Our journey
From acquiring screening equipment to training health workers, each milestone widens the circle of care.
Foundation registered and ROP screening camera acquired.
Doctors trained and ROP screening initiated.
Nanhi Aankhein launched, with KMC integrated into ROP care.
Community health worker training and awareness expanded.
Block-to-block awareness and the volunteer network grow.
A message from our co-founder
I still remember the conversations that were the hardest to have—the ones where I had to tell someone that their vision could not be restored. The hardest part was knowing that it might have been prevented if help had reached them just a little earlier.
Over two decades as an ophthalmologist, I witnessed countless lives affected by vision loss due to preventable eye conditions, as well as by health challenges such as diabetes, hypertension, and mental health conditions. Time and again, I realised that many of these outcomes could have been prevented—or significantly reduced—if people had received the right guidance and support at the right time.
These experiences transformed the way I looked at medicine. I came to believe that the greatest impact lies not only in treating illness, but in helping people stay healthy through education, timely intervention, and healthier lifestyles, including yogic practices.
With this belief, I co-founded Aaronya Foundation for People—a not-for-profit organization committed to building healthier communities by preventing avoidable blindness and promoting early, accessible, and compassionate healthcare.
Through Aaronya, my hope is to help build a future where knowledge reaches people before disease does, prevention becomes a way of life, and no one loses sight because help came too late.
Join Aaronya Shakti
A passionate volunteer network working towards Zero Blindness, Healthy Nation.
Join the networkHealth awareness
Promote eye health, preventive health and healthy lifestyle practices in schools, colleges and communities.
Digital advocacy
Use your digital skills to amplify our mission through social media, creative content and digital campaigns.
Community action
Support and lead awareness events and community engagement activities.
Healthy living
We're looking for wellness experts to write blogs on nutrition, yoga, mental well-being and healthy living for our community.
Partner with us
Choose how you'd like to partner and help prevention, knowledge, and timely care reach further.
Education
Partner with us to equip students from nursing, MSW and other educational institutions with the knowledge and skills to contribute towards blindness prevention and preventive health, inspiring them to create meaningful social impact wherever they serve.
Collective action
Collaborate with us to expand awareness, strengthen communities and create greater collective impact.
Social responsibility
Partner with us to support preventive health initiatives and create meaningful social impact through Corporate Social Responsibility.
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