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ASCRS Foundation: Improving the World's Vision

The ASCRS Foundation delivers humanitarian eye care to those who need it most in the United States and abroad.

More than 85 million people are visually impaired worldwide. Globally, cataracts are the second leading cause of visual impairment and the leading cause of preventable blindness in the developing world.

 

The ASCRS Foundation supports physician education and provides humanitarian cataract surgery in the United States and overseas. Through its programs and partnerships, the Foundation works to maximize the benefits of modern ophthalmology and to treat thousands of patients in need each year.


Operation Sight Information for Patients

Your Gift Today will Change Lives!

“With failing eyesight, my job was coming to an end and so was my ability to drive. Because of Operation Sight, I can see, work a substantial job and drive with confidence, even at night! I could not have been blessed with a better program and group of people! Thank you for changing my life!” Bruce, Operation Sight Patient


Stories like Bruce’s are received every day through Operation Sight, the ASCRS Foundation's US based charitable cataract surgery program. The enormous power of the gift of sight has ripple effects for individuals and their communities. Click below to donate today!

Fueling the Mission

The ASCRS Foundation is thankful for the leaders, donors and volunteers working to improve physician education and preventable cataract blindness. We are grateful to all those who donate their time, talent and funding to support the Foundation's ongoing humanitarian eyecare and education programs.

Last year, ASCRS Foundation programs served more than 26,000 patients in need in the United States and abroad.

Our nationwide network of 700 volunteers have delivered over 7,000 charitable cataract surgeries via Operation Sight.

"I was blind for 9 years and now I can see. I have been born again!"
Aster, sinskey eye institute patient

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