Dr. V.'s Unstoppable Passion for Vision.

I've heard the story of this man in my university years, a great model of community health care or community organizing participatory action research.
Today,humanity celebrates as more and more people are being rescued from needless blindness. Significance is seen even without the naked eye. He is DR. GOVINDAPPA VENKATASWAMY, Dr. V. as in volunteerism and vision. See a glimpse of his life story in 6 minutes.




What's interesting about this doctor was that he was an obstetrician before he became an opthalmologist. At the age of 58, he retired from military health service because he suffered from rheumatoid arthritis and that's when he started learning opthalmology. He FORCEFULLY retrained his fingers to hold instruments, those especially deviced for arthritic hands and he did it.

If there's someone who needs help that time it was him, he's old and crippled by a degenerative disease of the hands, he could have just chilled it all the way toward the end of his life, he could have just enjoyed seniority/ boss moments with friends but he didn't. He got every one that he can and selling his McDonalds' inspired vision to everybody.

He didnt ask how much of my time and money would this cost me, do I have people with me in this hoboism. (LOL) How much energy do I have to exert in this journey? I do over a 100 surgeries a day, will I ever have a holiday?


Passion is uncontrollable and unstoppable, Passion does whatever it takes.

If we are “out of our mind,” as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

2 Corinthians 5:12-15.