145,791 patients screened,
17,289 cured of blindness
A legacy of social and
economic change
Dr. Sanduk Ruit and Mr Tej Kohli are united in their mission to create a lasting legacy of social and economic change in poor and underserved communities by screening 1,000,000 people and curing up to 500,000 of needless cataract blindness.
#2030inSight
A worldwide mission to cure blindness
2030 IN SIGHT is the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness’s strategic plan for the next decade. A call to action to embed vision as a fundamental, economic, social and development issue, all of which are fundamental to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
We are curing blindness and leaving a legacy of community eye hospitals in the world’s poorest communities. We’re taking our microsurgical outreach camps to Nepal, India, Indonesia, Bhutan, Myanmar, Bangladesh, North Korea, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Tanzania, Lebanon and Syria.
The number one United Nations Sustainable Development Goal is to end extreme poverty everywhere.
We are sharing our stories and building awareness that this goal can only become a reality when there is also a coordinated international effort to prevent and eliminate needless blindness, which is both a cause and a consequence of extreme poverty.
The Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation has partnered with the Evening Standard in London to share our stories and to raise awareness.
We have to cure blindness if we want to reduce extreme poverty
How the Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation will cure 500,000 of blindness by 2026
Meet Dr Sanduk Ruit, the Barefoot Surgeon who’s cured 130,000 of blindness
Meet Tej Kohli, a man on a mission to heal the world’s blind
OUR ACHIEVEMENTS
145,791 Patients Screened
17,289 patients cured of blindness
78 Outreach Camps Organised
8 Partner Hospitals in Network
OUR MICROSURGICAL CAMPS
333 People Cured of Blindness
352 People Cured of Blindness
178 People Cured Of Blindness
312 People Cured Of Blindness
#50and7
Curing needless blindness costs as little as $50 per patient and surgery to cure a cataract can take just seven minutes. The ripple effect of curing blindness transforms the social and economic prospect of entire communities for the better.
#50and7
$50 AND 7 MINUTES CAN CHANGE A LIFE FOREVER
Curing needless blindness costs as little as $50 per patient and surgery to cure a cataract can take just seven minutes. The ripple effect of curing blindness transforms the social and economic prospect of entire communities for the better.
