About us

Global purpose. Local leadership.

Learn how the organization is being designed to combine high-quality eye care with education, partnership, accountability, and continuity.

Our mission

Expand access. Strengthen capacity. Protect dignity.

To expand access to quality eye care while strengthening the people, partnerships, and systems that make lasting vision care possible.

“A world where preventable and treatable vision loss no longer limits a person’s future.”

Organizational vision

What guides the work

Compassion

Patients and communities are treated with dignity, respect, and attention to individual needs.

Clinical responsibility

Programs proceed only when safety, readiness, continuity, and local oversight are clearly established.

Partnership

Local leaders help define priorities, delivery models, and measures of success.

Transparency

Outcomes, limitations, finances, and learning should be reported honestly and clearly.

Organization development

A governance structure designed for responsible growth.

The following structure is an editable planning framework—not a claim that every role has already been appointed.

Structure to confirm

Board of directors

Independent oversight of strategy, finance, ethics, risk, and legal responsibilities.

Structure to confirm

Clinical advisory group

Guidance on clinical standards, patient safety, scope of practice, and program readiness.

Structure to confirm

Local partner council

Representation from host-country leaders and institutions to keep programs locally informed.

Structure to confirm

Operations & impact team

Delivery, safeguarding, evaluation, communications, fundraising, and administrative coordination.

Accountability

Build trust before building scale.

Core policies and documents should be publicly available as they are approved.