With 8 million blind people and 62 million visually impaired, India shares almost a quarter of the entire global burden of blindness and vision impairment.
Nearly 70% of all vision impairments can be found in low-income regions of India.
We provide critical eye care to underserved communities, especially women and children.
We have restored eyesight and provided eyeglasses, medicine, and other eye care services to 10 million people.
Akhand Jyoti USA shares the vision and mission of Akhand Jytoti Eye Hospital in making top-quality eye care accessible to all, creating a healthier, brighter future for those in need.
Shaping Our Purpose, Envisioning the Future
Mission
Aims to provide 2 million sight-restoring eye surgeries and primary care to 12 million of the poorest sections and engage and empower 1500 girls from these regions by 2030.
Vision
To help eliminate curable blindness and visual impairment by providing affordable and accessible eye health services to low-income regions while empowering women to achieve this.
Akhand Jyoti USA aligns with the mission and vision of Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospital
Vision 2030
To eliminate blindness in low-income regions like Bihar, India, expanding surgical capacity and training more professionals are essential. Increasing specialized facilities and skilled surgeons ensures timely care in underserved rural areas, reducing preventable blindness and improving eye health. As Akhand Jyoti looks to the future, it is guided by an ambitious strategy: Vision 2030. This roadmap envisions a transformative decade focused on scaling up eye care services, building infrastructure, and empowering communities. The key goals of Vision 2030 include:
12 million
Eye screening and primary eye care
1.5K
Girls to be trained as Optometrists
2 million
Sight-restoring surgeries for the blind
Akhand Jyoti’s Foundational Pillars
Eye Health
We will always be dedicated to restoring sight for underprivileged, visually impaired patients.
Women Empowerment
We will always work to support rural underprivileged girls and women and help them get equal opportunities.
Targeted Rural Interventions
We will continue to work only in low-income geographies to support the most deprived people.
What We Do?
Fostering Empowerment and Expanding Access to Essential Health Services
Empowering Women
Akhand Jyoti USA works to empower rural underprivileged girls from low-income geographies in Bihar, India. Trained and skilled as Optometrists, these girls transform into strong and independent individuals who act as social change agents.
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Primary Eye Care
Blindness and poverty create a vicious cycle, limiting access to quality eye care. Providing primary eye care and connecting individuals to specialized eye hospitals is essential for equitable, community-based healthcare solutions.
LEARN MOREPeople Behind the Ground-breaking Work
The Akhand Jyoti USA team comprises people from diverse industries and backgrounds who have come together to make a unified effort to create substantial and long-lasting social impact in low-income geographies in India.
Akhand Jyoti USA is fortunate to have some of the brightest minds from both the corporate and nonprofit sectors working towards the common goal of making the world a better place by restoring the lives of the poor and helpless.
Meet the team that is making a difference in the lives of the helpless.
Krishna Jhaveri
Finance
Ashok Desai
President
Anisa Daftari
Advisory Board Member
Partnering with Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospital, India
We partner with the most trusted nonprofit organizations so that 100% of your support goes to the beneficiaries directly. Our existing partner in India – Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospital, a unit of Yugrishi Shriram Sharma Acharya Charitable Trust, is registered as a trust in India.
Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospital works towards eliminating curable blindness from low-income geographies and empowers women to do this. They have 6 eye hospitals and 40+ Vision Centers with 880+ beds network in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh – the two most desperate states in India. Performing over 100,000 eye surgeries annually, Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospital stands as the largest super speciality eye hospital network in Eastern India.
The door-to-door screening team conducts screenings in people's homes.
Outreach camp staff conduct screenings and promote eye health awareness.
Vision Centers and Vision Vans provide quality eye care across rural India.
Providing high-quality ophthalmic care to low-income and rural communities.
Senior optometrists conduct eye screenings using advanced eye care equipment.
Senior optometrists’ mentor junior optometrists and students.
The girls work with compassion to eliminate curable blindness in low-income regions.
Senior optometrists counsel parents of young children about visual impairment.
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Eye Health
We will always be dedicated to restoring sight for underprivileged, visually impaired patients.
Women Empowerment
We will always work to support rural underprivileged girls and women and help them get equal opportunities.
Targeted Rural Interventions
We will continue to work only in low-income geographies to support the most deprived people.
