Pooja Jha

Social impact · Project management · Agile

A clearer classroom starts with noticing who cannot see it.

Active Eyes identified vision problems among children in government schools and helped students who needed support receive spectacles.

Role

Project Lead

Focus

Screening to spectacle delivery

2,500+

Government-school students screened

170

Students provided with spectacles

Impact came from carrying every identified need through to fulfillment not stopping at the screening.

01 On the ground

From the school hall to the trial frame.

Screening days moved students from the assembly hall through vision tests to a closer check for anyone who needed correction.

Hundreds of government-school students seated for the awareness session

01 · Students gathered in the school hall before screening began.

Students queueing for their eye screening beside the Rotaract banner

02 · Classes moved through in batches to keep the day on schedule.

Students covering one eye during a vision test with optometrists

03 · Optometrists ran vision tests, one eye at a time.

Optometrist fitting a trial frame on a student during screening

04 · Students who struggled were checked closely for the right lenses.

02 The challenge

Many moving parts. One promise to keep.

Many moving parts.

One promise to keep.

Coordination

Running screenings across schools meant coordinating student groups, school schedules, volunteers, stakeholders, and on-ground logistics within limited time and resources.

Follow-through

The harder part came after identification: ensuring that each student who needed spectacles stayed visible in the process until those spectacles were delivered.

Labelled spectacle pouches laid out on a table, one for each student

Project principle

Track the child, not just the count.

Progress tracking connected screening records, identified needs, and final spectacle delivery into one accountable workflow.

03 AGILE INSPIRED EXECUTION

Learn from one phase. Improve the next.

Learn from one phase.

Improve the next.

PLAN

Map schools and stakeholders

Align schedules, permissions, volunteers, and screening capacity before committing dates.

PILOT

Test the operating rhythm

Run an early phase, observe bottlenecks, and clarify roles and responsibilities.

ADAPT

Respond to the ground reality

Adjust timing, volunteer allocation, and follow-up plans based on what each phase revealed.

DELIVER

Close the impact loop

Track identified students through to spectacle distribution.

04 Final chapter

The loop closes with a pair of glasses.

The final chapter brought students, school staff, and partners together for spectacle distribution, so the students identified during screening left with their glasses in hand.

A student receiving her spectacles at the final distribution

Organisers and school staff on stage at the Active Eyes final event

170

Students provided with spectacles

05 MY ROLE

Holding the system together

As Project Lead, I managed the initiative from planning through execution and impact tracking, adapting quickly whenever schedules, resources, or on-ground needs changed.

Project planning and phase design

School and stakeholder coordination

Volunteer scheduling and management

On-ground execution and problem-solving

Student follow-up and impact tracking

06 Team & partners

Three organisations, one shared promise.

Active Eyes was run by the Rotaract Club of Bangalore Revolution together with Rotary Bangalore IT Corridor, with Globe Eye Foundation as the eye-care partner.

ROTARACT CLUB OF BANGALORE REVOLUTION

ROTARY BANGALORE IT CORRIDOR

GLOBE EYE FOUNDATION

The Rotaract volunteer team standing beside the club banner

Three volunteers from the Active Eyes team

07 What the project strengthened

Leadership measure in delivered impact

Active Eyes strengthened my project planning, stakeholder management, volunteer leadership, agile execution, and problem-solving, and my ability to carry impact through to the final mile.

Volunteers and students together after a screening day

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