“Buy one, Give one” - a Philanthropy event by Lenskart.com

April 28, 2012 - PRLog -- New Delhi, 28 April 2012: - Lenskart.com, India’s first and leading ecommerce website for eyewear, understanding its corporate social responsibility organizes a social event in association with NGO named Pankhudi to help the needy school children see the future better & clear.

Out of 1.12 billion people in the country, 456 million people require vision correction in the form of spectacles, contact lenses or refractive surgery to be able to see and function normally. A further 133 million people, including 11 million children, are blind or vision-impaired due to lack of an eye examination and access to appropriate pair of glasses.

Given these numbers, Lenskart realizes its social responsibility of giving people the pleasure of clearer vision. For the same, Lenskart takes the initiative of helping the needy with vision problems, and donating prescription spectacles after a free eye check-up by an eye specialist.

"Lenskart.com stretches a lending hand towards the development and upliftment of needy children from the marginalized sections of society by providing free prescribed eyewear. We, Pankhudi Foundation, express our heartfelt gratitude for their support and endeavor" says Pankhudi foundation team.

Lenskart.com shall continue with such activities in the future that contributes to the improvement of the school children belonging to the part of society that needs attention.

About Lenskart.com

Founded by Mr. Peyush Bansal, Lenskart.com is India’s leading online retailer of Contact Lenses, eyewear and sunglasses. It offers one of the biggest selection of prescribed eyewear and other accessories by the world’s leading manufacturers like Fastrack, Sprint, Vintage, Johnson & Johnson, Ciba Vision, Bausch & Lomb, Cooper Vision etc. it delivers  in 450 cities in India, with an average of 72-hour free-home-delivery time and a 14-day no-questions-asked return policy. Lenskart also runs a ‘Buy One Give One’ charity programme i.e. for every pair of eyeglasses sold; Lenskart donates a pair of glasses to needy communities across India and have already donated more than 3,000 pairs.  The company also has two more websites watchkart.com and bagskart.com.