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Operation Eyesight Universal’s journey began in 1963 when a businessman from Calgary, Canada, Arthur Jenkyns, met Dr. Ben Gullison, a physician. The latter had worked at a mission hospital in the southern part of India. Mr. Jenkyns was inspired by Dr. Gullison’s work and founded Operation Eyesight Universal (Operation Eyesight) to raise funds for people who needed eye care in India. Since then, Operation Eyesight, with its South-East Asia office in Hyderabad, continues to contribute significantly to the cause of the eliminating avoidable blindness. To date, Operation Eyesight’s work is guided by the philosophy “the best for the poorest,” and the prioritization of local capacity building and sustainability. The organization’s mission is “to prevent blindness and restore sight,” and it envisions programs to “eliminate avoidable blindness.” Operation Eyesight has been supporting eye care since 1963 in the South-East Asian countries of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka; it later expanded to the African countries of Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, and Zambia. In all these countries, Operation Eyesight collaborates with the government, non-government organizations (NGOs), and private health care providers to deliver quality eye care services, empower target communities, and eliminate avoidable blindness on a sustainable basis. An overview of Operation Eyesight’s work in South-East Asia as of 2020 is shown in Table 26.1. |
