Saibaba Goud

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A.Saibaba Goud
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Dr. A.Saibaba Goud

Dr. A. Saibaba Goud is a renowned Ophthalmologist of India, Founder-Chairman of Devnar Foundation for Blind, Social Entrepeneur, and a visionary behind voluntary organization at Secunderabad in Andhra Pradesh state of India fully devoted and dedicated to the upliftment of the visually-challenged and visually-disabled children.

Saibaba Goud always stood as an en-visionary for the blind people and succeeded in making the society, people, government, and business in recognizing blind people as patners in the Indian society. To realize that,he worked studiously with voluntary organizations, social and religious organizations, government, and various institutes with an aim of providing opportunities on par with International standards to the visually impaired children in India in order to provide a way for the blind people to be absorbed in the mainstream of the society as productive adults.

He is confered with several coveted awards namely Indian Ophthalmologic Award,Dr.K.R.Dutta Award,Rastriya Gaurav Award etc,.He also wrote several books and published many articles for blind in all the leading English and Telugu newspapers and journals.His radio talks and Doordarshan interviews are educative and informative.

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[edit] Professional Life

Dr.Saiababa Goud is also President of National Society for the Prevention of Blindness(NSPB) in Andhra Pradesh state branch of India,Professor and Head of Department of Ophthalmology in Osmania Medical College at Hyderabad in India.In addition, he is also the Founder-trustee of Devnar Foundation for Blind and Chairman of Andhra Pradesh Cricket Association for the Blind.

[edit] En-visionary for Blind Community in Andhra Pradesh of India

Dr.Saibaba Goud as an en-visionary for blind people envisioned a model and lead the foundation in accommodating the infrastructure essential for realizing the dream of blind people in integrating them with mainstream of society as productive adults. Foundation aim is to provide opportunities to the blind and not sympathy.Through Devnar Foundation,vision-disabled people are provided accommodation,schools for education,vocational programs so that blind people can get self employed or work in private sector. In addition to this,Foundation also provides training to blind people to use computers, facilities to participate in extra curricular activities such as sports like cricket/chess,music and dance.[1]

Foundation is also trying to accommodate a Polytechnic college,Engineering college for blinds through various affiliations. Apart from this they also provide medical care to sight related needs of these children and provide parental counseling and genetic counseling.[2]

Foundation efforts succeeded in yielding several productive outcomes as[3]

  • GE, DELL, Oracle, CA are some of the companies that have supported the efforts of Foundation. The employees of GE come and hold entertainment and story telling programs which help the children feel that they are a part of normal society. Some of these companies have volunteered to recruit our students once they graduate.
  • Government of India provides a 1% reservation for blind
  • Naga Babu, who completed his engineering from Vijayawada, was recruited by Wipro Technologies during the campus selections
  • The Foundation also manages the Ramananda Centre for Advance Learning and Research for the visually impaired vocational training and provides CBR programs, parental and genetic counseling and operates Braille printing presses.
  • Blind students are listening to lessons from a science textbook being read by the computer, using a MS Windows applications such as MS Word, Excel, Internet Explorer, etc.
  • A Blind Doctor joined as a tutor in an MBBS college through a public service commission exam

[edit] Devnar Foundation for Blind

Devnar is a combination of two words.DEV stands for God and NAR stands for Man to highlight the fact that there is God in every Man.If the entire Humanity is the family of God,the visually-challenged children are special members in the family,and aims in providing every possible opportunity to develop the hidden potentialities and talents inherent in them.[4]

Dr.Saibaba Goud founded Devnar Foundation for blind on November 1st,1991 with an aim of providing all the possible and available opportunities on par with international standards to the visually-impaired and challenged children of India so as to enable them to absorbed in the mainstream of the society as productive adults .He initially started with just four students in a rented room.Now within a span of one decade,it has grown up to hundreds of students with a separate premise with multi-storeyed building.His wife Smt.Jyothi Goud also supports the mission as the correspondent of the Devnar Foundation.

[edit] Social Entrepreneurship

According to P.N Devarajan who is founder of CSIM,"Social entrepreneurship is about working within the current constraints, creating an operating model that will adapt and sustain itself to serve the cause in any situation ……”. Dr.Saibaba Goud is well regarded as a Social Entrepreneur for successfully creating and running operating model for blind by starting with four students in a rented house and integrating the visually-disabled children with the mainstream of society by providing opportunities,training in vocational programs, and value based education including Information Technology skills so that visually-challenged children can go for self employment or work in private sector.

[edit] Awards

  • He is the first ever recipient of the coveted Indian ophthalmologic award - the national award Ph.D. by Osmania University
  • Dr K R Dutta award for exemplary work in the field of Ophthalmology community.
  • Drishti Pradatha Award
  • Rastriya Gaurav Award
  • J.S Mahashadba Award by the All Indian Opthalmological Society
  • Award for a film on Glaucoma by the All Indian Opthalmologoical Society
  • E.V. Srinivasan Award

[edit] Author

He is also the author of several books as mentioned below

  • Nayanabhiramam in Telugu
  • Meeru-Mee Kanulu in Telugu for neo-literates for eye care.
  • The Organ of the Sight in English

[edit] References

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ [2]
  3. ^ [3]
  4. ^ Devnar Foundation for Blind