March 15, 2006

Dear Friend,

Sub: ANNUAL COMPLIMENTARY COURTESY MASTER EYE CHECK UP

Best wishes to you and your family for a Happy, Healthy and Cheerful New Year from all of us at Sankara Nethralaya!

Sankara Nethralaya is a one stop referral ophthalmic institution with quality leadership providing eye care comparable to the best in the world at Indian costs. We are also a leading Academic and Research institution in ophthalmology.

A number of Indian friends living abroad visiting us at Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, had a very high appreciation of the quality of eye care provided by us. Many of them expressed their desire for their parents, parents-in-laws, elderly relatives living in Chennai and other places in India to get Annual Master Eye Check Up done at Sankara Nethralaya. Some of them even expressed a desire to have the Annual Master Eye Check Up for them or their parents etc living abroad when they come to India for their vacation. We mentioned to them about our new proposal of 'ANNUAL COMPLIMENTARY COURTESY MASTER EYE CHECK UP', which includes:

As a continuing supporter and well-wisher of Sankara Nethralaya, particularly for its Community Ophthalmology work, we have great pleasure in inviting you to avail of the above service, which will be provided to your dear ones for their life time. You are requested to email to donation@snmail.org and a copy to akila@snmail.org the following details in respect of each of your dear ones to whom you would like this Annual Master Eye Check up service to be provided for their lifetime.

A. Details of the designated person/s:

1. Name of the person & approximate age.
2. Your relationship with the person.
3. Complete postal address of the person.
4. Telephone, mobile and email address of the person.

B. Your details:

1. Name, Mailing address, Telephone Numbers, Email address.

Medical Research Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization committed to Community Ophthalmology, providing comprehensive free eye care to the urban and rural poor.

We plan to create a corpus fund of about 120 million Indian Rupees (US$ 2.7 million) in phase one now and build it up further over the next three years to be able to provide high quality in-patient FREE eye care surgery to the economically poor (both urban and rural) in India, out of the interest earned from such a corpus fund. This would reduce the dependence on external funding year after year for perpetual performance of a community oriented project with great societal relevance. We are glad to share with you that Sir Ratan Tata Trust has evaluated our programme to perform 10,000 such free surgeries every year perennially, found it acceptable and is considering to part fund of the corpus.

In this regard, may we request your kind support in the form of DONATION OF US$1000 TO MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION. If you are in the USA, you can make this donation online by going to the website www.omtrust.org Donations may also be sent by cheque to Mr S V Acharya, Treasurer, 9710, Traville Gateway Drive, No.392, Rockville, MD 20850. Tel: (301) - 251 - 0378, E-Mail: omtrustusa@yahoo.com. If you are living outside USA, you can send your donations by Cheque or Demand Draft equivalent to the above amount favouring "Medical Research Foundation" and address it to Dr S S Badrinath, Chairman or Dr. Lingam Gopal, Chairman-Elect at the above address in Chennai, India.

We greatly appreciate your philanthropic gesture in supporting our societal cause.

We await your response regarding the details of your dear ones to whom we would be privileged to provide the Complimentary Courtesy Annual Eye Master Check Up at our hospitals.

Once we receive the information from you, we will register the same and send a confirmation to you as well as to the designated person/ s.

We would be happy to provide you any further clarifications in this regard. We look forward to your fruitful association.

With kind regards,