Matched Funding Challenge!

2021 marks the 30th anniversary of this remarkable train. Since 1991, the Lifeline Express has travelled across India taking life-changing surgery to restore sight, hearing or mobility to the poorest people living in rural areas.

New services have been added in recent years including cancer screening and dentistry to treat those in constant pain from tooth decay. Its modern carriages house two operating theatres and recovery wards, clinics and testing facilities. More than two million people have benefited so far.

When the Lifeline Express surgeons reverse a disabling condition, that person is put back on the road to self-sufficiency and the benefits extend beyond them to their family and their community.

A philanthropic family has agreed to match, pound for pound, gifts made in support of the Lifeline Express birthday. This means your support has the potential to stretch twice as far at no extra cost to you.

After the adversities of the pandemic, we are facing 2022 with positivity. The funds raised through this matched giving challenge would make possible Lifeline Express projects in three rural locations. This would benefit more than 26,000 people - including more than 14,000 people treated for medical conditions as outpatients and more than 1,500 people who would undergo surgery to reverse a needlessly disabling condition.

Your support could help someone just like Hari, (pictured). He came to IMPACT India's Lifeline Express hospital train hoping for treatment to restore his failing sight. Haris son and 2-year old granddaughter, who he looks after, are his only family. His son could not afford to lose a days pay to care for his young daughter so Hari brought the girl with him to the Lifeline Express. The hospitals team looked after Haris granddaughter for the 20 minutes our surgeon took to correct his cataract and they both returned home to a much brighter future.