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Sankara Eye Foundation (SEF)s Dallas Chapter organized their inaugural walkathon, a 5K Fun Run/Walk for Vision on May 13 at Myers Park and Event Center in McKinney.

The event brought over 1,200 registered participants including Mayor-Elect George Fuller and his wife, Maylee-Thomas Fuller.

The event included a variety of entertainment for people of all ages bounce houses, pony rides, slides, fun filled music by local radio host DJ Moody, food and beverage choices via food trucks and even a fast-beat, choreographed flash mob led by Sweta Rajesh.

Close to $30,000 was raised with sponsorships from a host of local businesses including diamond sponsors Saravanaa Bhavan and Texas Institute for Neurological disorders.

A campaign to Open 300 Eyes was the highlight of the event. With a $30 donation, a donor gifts vision to a blind person in one of the many SEF eye hospitals in India. The assembled crowd surpassed the target by donating funds to open 450 eyes, aided by Fuller, who pledged to open 50 eyes. Baylor Scott & White Medical Center, Centennial, based in Frisco, matched the contribution toward the first 100 eyes. Participants who pledged received an I opened an eye sticker.

Established in the Bay Area, SEF is a nonprofit organization that has been working for the past 12 years with the goal of eradicating curable blindness in India. SEF has currently established nine community hospitals as well as two city hospitals and will soon embark on two new hospital projects.

SEF provides free eye care for those unable to afford it, those members of the rural poor, and this accounts for 80 percent which is approximately 150,000 people per year of the surgeries performed at their hospitals. For information visit giftofvision.org.

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