When most of us retire, we just hang up our boots and call it a day. It is our way of telling ourselves that we have worked for the most years of our lives and it is time to now slow down, get some health insurance, read and relax. But, see what Dr Govindappa Venkataswamy did after retirement in 1976 after working in numerous government hospitals in Tamilnadu. The day he retired, he started drawing blueprints of what he always wanted to do: reach inexpensive eye care to the poor. This was his dream all through his working years, a dream that was born while traveling through the United States. There he had seen a modern eye-care facility and he wanted a similar one in India. Now that he had retired, it was time to do it, he told himself Read the full story here: http://indiatogether.com/2008/jun/hlt-blindness.htm
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