We collaborate with our hospital and government partners in low- and middle-income countries to invest in sustainable eye health treatment, prevention and community development to create a better life for people now and into the future. We currently have programs in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Kenya, Zambia, Ghana, Ethiopia and Liberia, and we are looking to expand to other countries in the future. We adhere to the highest standard of integrity, accountability and compassion, and we live those principles in our work every day.

Although our organization has a strong presence in Canada, most of our employees are based locally in the countries where we work. This allows us to utilize local expertise to maximize your impact, and enables the communities we operate in to be empowered to take ownership of their own eye health so they are not reliant on us.

For over a decade, we have developed and implemented our Hospital-Based Community Eye Health model of eye care to reach people in remote locations. This model empowers communities by connecting them with quality eye health care and education, leading to the elimination of avoidable blindness in entire villages. With the support of our donors, this proven effective model has changed the lives of millions of people in India, and we have started to successfully implement it into other countries where we work. Our model can be scaled to countries around the world, with the potential to eliminate avoidable blindness worldwide. It positions us to become an important player in implementing the recommendations of the World Health Organization’s 2019 World Report on Vision, which calls for an integrated approach.