From swim schools to eye clinics: how families of 7/7 victims used heartbreak to help others

<p>Relatives tell of their determination to see good come from the killing of their loved ones in 2005 London bombings</p><p>In the city of Bhubaneswar, the capital of the north-east Indian state of Odisha, there is an eye clinic that has transformed the lives of thousands of children.</p><p>Before the unit was established in 2008, according to its vice-chair, there was no dedicated children’s eye care centre in the entire eastern part of India, a country home to <a href="https://me.orbis.org/en/where-we-work/india">20% of the world’s blind children</a>. The clinic now sees about 3,000 children a month and performs 350 eye surgeries – a significant proportion of them at no cost to the often very poor families who need them.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/06/positive-legacies-7-7-london-bombings">Continue reading...</a>