Cure Blindness Project

Founded in 1995 as the Himalayan Cataract Project, Cure Blindness Project is a global nonprofit organization driven to help people retain or regain their sight. We envision a world where no one is needlessly blind. To make that happen, we enable underserved communities to cure avoidable blindness by developing high-quality, cost-effective, sustainable eye care systems wherever they are.

Cure Blindness Project’s approach to eye care is unique – it focuses on building local capacity, ensuring quality infrastructure and equipment are available, enabling quality patient care and aiding effective prevention. We provide training and equipment to healthcare professionals, who then go on to provide eye care services in their own communities. This action-based approach builds local leadership, empowers key actors, and develops sustainable practices from the ground up. Together with an extensive network of implementing partners in over 25 countries, Cure Blindness Project has provided more than 1.4 million sight-restoring surgeries and screened more than 14.5 million people to provide care and basic treatments, has trained over 19,500 eye health professionals, and has established 5 eye hospitals.