ANI | Jun 14, 2014, 02.30 AM IST
Over 100 transgenders have pledged to donate their eyes after their deaths. A Punebased non-governmental organisation, Late Shankarrao Bhoi Smruti Pratishthan, has been able to encourage more than 15,000 people to fill up eye donation forms in the last 15 years. On Thursday, they managed to encourage 127 eunuchs to pledge to donate their eyes.
Transgender Panna Gabrel said, "If males and females can do this (donate eyes), then why can't our community do this? We also want to do something for the nation. This is why members of our community have come together to donate eyes." Bhoi Foundation president Milind Bhoi said more than 7,00,000 people are visually-impaired in India and in need of an eye transplant.
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