We go where the need is greatest
Over three decades, Suraj Eye Institute has carried expert eye care into villages, slums, schools, and hospital wards across Central India — free of charge, on behalf of those who cannot afford to seek it.
Blindness is not simply a medical condition. In Central India it is a sentence — to dependence, poverty, and exclusion. Suraj Eye Institute believes that every person, wherever they were born, deserves to see. That conviction has driven five distinct public-health programmes, each targeting a population that would otherwise be left behind.
💡 Light to Lives
Free cataract surgery and sight-restoring care carried to the rural poor — day after day, for over 15 years.
🏙️ Nagpur Million Project
24 monthly eye clinics in Nagpur’s slums — free glasses, free surgery, and dignity restored for 1.2 million people.
👁️ Central India KidSight
Every child deserves clear vision. We have screened over 200,000 school children — in classrooms, slums and remote villages.
🩺 Sight Save — Diabetes & Eye
1,500+ visits to government district hospitals across Central India. Over 40,000 diabetic patients screened and treated before they lost their sight.
👶 ROP — Saving Newborn Sight
Since 12.12.12 we have screened premature babies across Nagpur, Gondia and Bhandara — 1,500 babies a year, catching blinding disease before it steals sight for ever.
🤝 Support Our Charity
A donation of just ₹3,500 restores sight to one patient for life. All donations to Om Drishti Trust carry 50% Indian tax exemption.
The scale of the challenge
20%
of the world’s blind live in India
80%
of all blindness is preventable or treatable
₹3,500
is all it costs to restore one person’s sight for life
15+ years
of continuous outreach in Central India