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Cure Blindness Project

Help provide a cure for blindness

Cure Blindness Project

Help provide a cure for blindness

Help provide a cure for blindness

We have an extraordinary opportunity to change countless lives. 

Millions live in darkness, loneliness and exclusion due to needless blindness. This challenge hits hardest where resources are fewest—but you can help.  

A visionary donor has challenged us: but we must act quickly. If our community raises $10 Million in new donations by December 31, 2025, the donor has pledged an additional $10 Million in matching funds. If we do not meet this goal by the deadline, the entire $10 Million is at risk.  

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1. Local Capacity

Provide training for clinical and non-clinical personnel to expand access to quality care and improve outcomes

2. Infrastructure & Equipment

Ensure trained personnel have the appropriate tools to apply their skills

3. Patient Care

Support partners in providing direct service and expand partnerships to ensure access to care across disease areas

4. Prevention

Expand training for community health workers to address comprehensive eye care at primary care level

Our Work

Eliminating unnecessary blindness

Cure Blindness Project enables underserved communities to cure avoidable blindness by developing high-quality, cost-effective, sustainable eye care wherever they are.

How Where

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Let's See What's Possible

Climbing higher
every day

For 30 years, we've worked to overcome the mountain of global blindness. We pause to see how far we've come, and we're invigorated to see the possibilities ahead.

Together with our supporters and partners, we are striving for a summit where sight is in reach.

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1.8m

Surgeries Performed

5

Hospitals

19.1m

Screenings & Basic Treatment

25.2k

Trainings Performed

Our Story

30 Years of Restoring Sight Around the World

Founded in 1995 as Himalayan Cataract Project, Dr. Geoff Tabin and Dr. Sanduk Ruit dreamed to end needless blindness in the world. Cure Blindness Project, together with partners, has performed over 1.8 million sight-restoring surgeries. And we're just getting started.

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Dr Sanduk Ruit and Dr Geoff Tabin, co-founders of Cure Blindness Project

We're rooted in excellence

By partnering with the top innovators in global ophthalmology, we can leverage the latest approaches, train others and envision new possibilities.

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Stories of Sight

With early detection and treatment, the impact of many causes of blindness can be treated – and often cured – improving the quality of life for affected individuals and changing communities for good.

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