Leadership Quotes

Disease Prevention and Treatment is one of the Rotary Foundation's Areas of Focus. And for good reason. The health and vitality of a person, a family and a community can be seriously impaired by what in many cases is a preventable disease. 

Disease prevention is really a keystone to progress in other areas as well because of the interplay with other areas of focus like Water and Sanitation and Maternal & Child Health.

The eradication of polio has, of course, been Rotary International's major worldwide effort since the early 1980s, and remarkable progress has been made.

Eye Foundation of America

Fellow E-Club member Dr. Leela Raju provides the presentation today via Powerpoint that highlights the Eye Foundation of America (EFA) and its global work. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that eighty percent of the world's 45 million blind people live in developing countries. The Eye Foundation of America's (EFA) mission is to go where the need is greatest – often rural and remote areas of developing countries where there is no medical care and where the cost of the care is prohibitive.

The Eye Foundation of America was founded in 1979 by her father, VK Raju, MD, a well-known ophthalmologist at Regional Eye in Morgantown, WV. He is a clinical professor of ophthalmology at West Virginia University and an adjunct professor at the GSL Medical School in India. Dr. Raju also serves as president and chairman of Goutami Eye Institute in India, and is a member of the Rotary Club of Morgantown.

Dr. Leela Raju is the daughter of Dr. Raju and is an ophthalmologist in Brooklyn, New York. She is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Mon Health Medical Center, NYC Health and Hospitals-Bellevue, and NYU Langone Health - Tisch Hospital.

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