Eye care
Free screening camps for schoolchildren and adults, spectacles fitted on the spot, and cataract surgery with lens implants for those who need it.
2,027 people screened
SCOPE Foundation · Est. 2006
One planet holds every life we know of.
We work quietly, in villages and in clinics — and we are building the first monument raised in gratitude to Mother Earth.
Who we are
A small foundation, doing plain work.
SCOPE Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2006. We run free eye screenings and cataract surgeries, place computers in rural schools, and send medical supplies where they are needed — in India, and during the pandemic wherever we could reach.
The work is unglamorous and steady: a camp arranged, a surgery paid for, a room of machines switched on for the first time. We keep the accounts plain and the promises small.
What we do
Computers for schools
Refurbished and new computers placed in rural Indian schools, so children learn on machines rather than only hearing about them.
100 computers placed
Medical relief
During the pandemic we moved ventilators, masks, face shields and wipes to hospitals in India and to frontline workers closer to home.
170 ventilators sent
Recorded, since 2006
2,027
Eye screenings for adults and children
1,232
Pairs of spectacles given, free of cost
165
Cataract surgeries with lens implants
100
Computers placed in rural Indian schools
170
Ventilators sent during the Delta wave
500,000
KN95 masks distributed
14,000
Disinfectant wipes distributed
8,000
Face shields donated to frontline workers
A separate undertaking
The Mother Earth Monument
Concept render · 12°41′37″N 76°53′29″E
Humanity has built monuments for worship, for victory, for kings. As far as we can tell, not one has been raised for the planet that carries all of it. We would like to build that one.
Beside it stands the Mother Earth Center for the Science of Spirituality. Nothing ritual happens there. It is simply a place to sit with the plain fact that everyone alive belongs to the same Earth.
- Site
- Thirteen acres, eight miles from Mandya, Karnataka
- Main structure
- 11,000 sq ft of locally quarried granite
- Presiding form
- Mother Earth, carved from solid granite
- Relief carvings
- Sixty-four, honouring lives given in service
If you would like to help
There is no hurry, and no pressure.
Everything we do is carried by people giving a little time or a little money. If either is something you have to spare, we would be glad of it.