{"id":105599,"date":"2017-09-04T17:24:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T11:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=105599"},"modified":"2017-09-04T17:24:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T11:54:38","slug":"sight-thon-blindfold-2k-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/sight-thon-blindfold-2k-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sight-A-Thon\u2019 blindfold 2k walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">First ever \u2018Sight-A-Thon 2017 a blindfold 2k walk was organised in city, by Saksham \u2013Telangana National Level NGO, an Joint Initiative of Govt of Telangana and NPCB. To create awareness on eye donation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-105600 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_9536_2200x1467.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018Sight-A-Thon\u2019 blindfold 2k walk \" width=\"568\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_9536_2200x1467.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_9536_2200x1467-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The walk was flagged off at the Peoples Plaza by the star Commedian Ali Basha along with TS.Maestro Gazal Srinivas. Fight masters Ram and Laxman, Actor Raghu Karamanchi, and GHMC Harichandana Dasari- GHMC Zonal commissioner(West) were also graced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-105601 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Ali-blind-fold-at-walk-with-Visually-Challenged_2200x1467.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018Sight-A-Thon\u2019 blindfold 2k walk \" width=\"626\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Ali-blind-fold-at-walk-with-Visually-Challenged_2200x1467.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Ali-blind-fold-at-walk-with-Visually-Challenged_2200x1467-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2k Run started from Peoples plaza to Indira Gandhi statue Circle and turned back to Plaza. More than 1500 participants supported the walk. Saw the participants in the walk blindfolded and hand held by Visually challenged guide team of blindfolded members in the walk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-105602 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/A6IMG_9627_2200x1467.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018Sight-A-Thon\u2019 blindfold 2k walk \" width=\"651\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/A6IMG_9627_2200x1467.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/A6IMG_9627_2200x1467-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many are suffering with blindness right from the birth or because of cornea like problems, eye donation is the only way left to get the eye sight to these people&#8221; said, Dr. Veda Prakash, President Saksham Telangana and Secretary Karunakar, Dr. Santosh Kraleti.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-105604 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Untitled-1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018Sight-A-Thon\u2019 blindfold 2k walk \" width=\"692\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Untitled-1-copy.jpg 950w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Untitled-1-copy-768x404.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First ever \u2018Sight-A-Thon 2017 a blindfold 2k walk was organised in city, by Saksham \u2013Telangana National Level NGO, an Joint Initiative of Govt of Telangana and NPCB. To create awareness on eye donation. The walk was flagged off at the Peoples Plaza by the star Commedian Ali Basha along with TS.Maestro Gazal Srinivas. Fight masters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,29598,29609],"tags":[53237,53247,53238,53242,53246,53248,53249,53240,53241,53243,53239,53244,53245],"class_list":["post-105599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cinema","category-health","category-sports-news","tag-sight-a-thon-2017","tag-actor-raghu-karamanchi","tag-blindfold-2k-walk","tag-eye-donation","tag-fight-masters-ram-and-laxman","tag-ghmc-harichandana-dasari","tag-ghmc-zonal-commissioner","tag-govt-of-telangana","tag-npcb","tag-peoples-plaza","tag-saksham-telangana-national-level-ngo","tag-star-commedian-ali","tag-ts-maestro-gazal-srinivas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_9565_2200x1467.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}