June 23, 2025 | Kemri
Kenya: Unlocking Economic Potential through Better Vision: EARN Trial Pilot Launched in Kisii
Operation Eyesight is part of a trial with the Economic Advantages of Readers for New Vision (EARN) Trial pilot in Kisii County, Kenya along with partners KEMRI, International Centre for Eye Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Peek Vision, and Kisii Eye Hospital, Kisii County Health Department and the Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital.
June 23, 2025 | Calgary Herald
Parker: Rotarians get to meet Operation Eyesight that they have sponsored for more than 60 years
Operation Eyesight has been supported by more than 474 Rotary clubs from Calgary, Alberta, all ten provinces and Yukon and international clubs for more than six decades. David Parker looks at the history of this relationship, and its impact, while out staff and CEO Kashinath Bhoosnurmath meet Rotarians at the Rotary International Convention in Calgary in June.
June 22, 2025 | Yahoo! News Canada
Canada: Rotary International Convention, Stamps vs. Redblacks and the Festival of Chariots: What our photographers saw this weekend
Our CEO Kashinath Bhoosnurmath and our Advancement Assistant Erin Lawrie show off the Operation Eyesight booth and our interactive eye health game, Your Story Your Drop to the Calgary Herald photographer.
June 20, 2025 | The Globe and Mail
Canada: Operation Eyesight tackles the root causes of vision loss
Myrna Linder, Fund Development Director, talks about how every dollar counts in addressing avoidable vision loss – and how dollars transform lives. She also discusses broadening our donor base across generations, diaspora communities and geographies.
June 24, 2025 | Telangana Today
Hyderabad warms up for marathon with vibrant heritage run
Our Operation Eyesight India Team prepares for the Hyderabad Marathon with other NGOs to raise awareness of the critical issue of preventable blindness.
June 5, 2025 | The Nation Online
Malawi: Chitipa Hospital gets boost to start making spectacles
Phiri Kennedy, Country Director Zambia and Malawi, hands over medical equipment to Chitipa District Hospital’s Optometry Department to enable it to start making spectacles.
May 9, 2025 | Optik Now
In April 28-May2, Operation Eyesight worked with the Maskwacîs Education Schools Commission to facilitate a vision clinic with LensCrafters, and the North America affiliate of the OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation. The clinic helped addressed vision problems for between 500 and 600 students. Most students in need of prescription eyeglasses received them onsite.
May 16, 2025 | MSN Health Canada
23 Canadian Charities Making a Massive Impact Locally
We were one of 23 Canadian charities recognized for our massive impact in a round-up MSN article.
March 16, 2025 | Goodmorning Africa News
Malawi: Operation eye sight handover Mk54 million clinic to Chitipa District Hospital
During the handover ceremony on Friday, our Malawi Country Director Kennedy Phiri said the Operation Eye Sight thought it wise to construct the clinic in Chitipa to reduce the burden that the people experience to seek eye help across the country.
March 10, 2025 | Kenya News Agency
Kenya: Maji Moto ward to benefit from Trachoma Mass Drug Administration
Maji Moto ward in Narok South Sub County is set to benefit from a Mass Drug Administration exercise to eliminate Trachoma disease that is common among the pastoralist’s community.
The exercise sponsored by Operation Eyesight Universal in collaboration with the County Government of Narok is a free mass admission of Azithromycin drug to all residents between 17th to 21st March, 2025.
February 16, 2025 | Global TV
Canada: Christian Labonte of Airdrie discusses his high school finance club – Operation Eyesight was the recipient of his fundraiser
Christian Labonte, a student volunteer who ran a November peer-to-peer fundraiser for Operation Eyesight talks about his school finance club and passing the baton. Shares about Operation Eyesight and who we are.
January 9, 2025 | VisionPlus
India: IVI, OEU To Enhance Vision For 40,000 Kids In Kurnool
We partnered with India Vision Institute (IVI) to screen 40,000 schoolchildren in 300 government and government-aided schools to improve vision among schoolchildren in the Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh. The program reached 17,000 students, addressing uncorrected refractive errors and providing free spectacles to those in need.
December 2024 | Graphic Online
Ghana: Tawiakwaa CHPS Zone declared vision-loss free – The Operation Eyesight Universal Ghana team, in partnership with Ghana Health Service, and technical partner, Watborg Eye Services, declared the zone avoidable blindness-free, as part of a larger ongoing project in Awutu Senya District.
December 2024 | The Nation
Malawi: The Operation Eyesight Malawi team takes part as a partner in providing free eye surgeries in Mangoshi, Malawi.
November 2024 | MoneySense
Canada: Operation Eyesight is named as a Top 10 Impact Charity and Top 10 International Impact Charity in Canada. It is the 7th year of being a top impact charity.
October 2024 | CTV News
Canada: We promote child eye health on the CTV Calgary (Canada) live morning show, sharing video clips from our child eye health programs from Africa and South Asia.
December 2024 | Lusaka Times
Zambia: The Operation Eyesight Team in Zambia opens the Kafue Gorge Eye Clinic in partnership with the Ministry of Health. Project partner OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation is supports the project by equipping the optical shop to dispense eyeglasses.
November 2024 | CTV Morning Show Live on Location
Canada: Robyn Wilson, Manager, Donor Relations, shares how Calgarians can give two gifts in one over the holidays – a donation made in the name of a loved one with cards and gift tags and the gift of sight to a person in South Asia or Africa. Operation Eyesight appeared in four segments on November 29 to share work of Operation Eyesight and help raise awareness and promote the Gift of Sight year-end campaign.
October 2024 | The Standard
Kenya: The Operation Eyesight Kenya team ran a school eye screening in honour of World Sight Day 2024. The screening was part of the Vision Impact Project, implemented by Operation Eyesight in partnership with Kajiado County Government and funded by CBM Christian Blind Mission.
October 2024 | African Eye Report
Ghana: World Sight Day 2024 focused on child eye health as 450 million children worldwide have an eye condition that requires treatment. The Operation Eyesight Ghana team shared World Sight Day Plans leading up to World Sight Day on October 10, 2024.
October 2024 | Calgary’s Child
Canada: In honour of World Sight Day, Operation Eyesight encouraged all parents and guardians to help their children to love their eyes – and help all children love their eyes with a $20 donation.
June 2024 | Globe and Mail
Canada: Myrna Linder, Fund Director, shares Operation Eyesight’s ‘secret sauce’, relationships with long-term donors and how the gift of sight continues to impact lives through legacy giving.
April 2024 | Business Ghana
Ghana: We are mentioned in an article on Glaucoma in Ghana as an NGO (non-governmental organization) that delivers eye heath care, conducts research.
February 2024 | Nature
International Eye Health Industry: We are included in a SWOT analysis of the models used by social enterprises in scaling effective refractive error coverage to achieve 2030 IN SIGHT in Kenya.
September 2023 | For the Love of our City
Canada: We were featured on Bell Media’s For the Love of our City campaign, which features stories of corporate citizenship in Calgary and takes a look at how local businesses and organizations are making a positive impact and creating lasting change for our city and the world.
July 2023 | Calgary Herald
Canada: Operation Eyesight President & CEO Kashinath Bhoosnurmath was interviewed in the Calgary Herald to talk about our 60th anniversary, what we have accomplished together over the years and our vision for the future of global eye health.
July 2023 | Iten County Referral Hospital Eye Unit
Kenya: The opening of a new operation theatre at Iten County Referral Hospital’s Eye Unit in Kenya was made possible by Operation Eyesight’s global team of staff, volunteers, donors and partners. It was a landmark event for the community and received coverage by Kenya News Agency and Kass Media.
November 2022 | Charity Intelligence Nomination
Canada: Charity Intelligence Canada named Operation Eyesight one of the Top 10 Impact Charities for the fifth consecutive year, and one of the Top 10 International Impact Charities for the third year in a row. This garnered us mentions in the Globe and Mail, MoneySense, and the Kingstonist.
October 2022 | CTV Calgary
Canada: Operation Eyesight appeared on CTV Morning Live Calgary, to talk about World Sight Day 2022, raising awareness about global eye health and the importance of loving your eyes. We also provided some eye health tips for viewers.
July 2022 | Narok Mass Drug Administration (MDA)
Kenya: Operation Eyesight partnered Sightsavers and the ministries of health in Kenya and Tanzania to distribute antibiotics to more than 1.3 million people with trachoma or at risk of developing the infection, providing much-needed treatment to communities along the Kenya-Tanzania border. The project received coverage from several news outlets across Kenya, including K24 TV, The Star, Look Up TV, China Daily and People Daily.
May 9, 2021 | My Radio 580
Listen to us on My Radio 580AM to learn more about our Mother’s Day campaign. Host Sapreet Buttar and Candice Naylen, our former VP of Advancement, discuss the need for eye health care services in low- and middle-income countries and how you can help prevent blindness and restore sight for women and girls.
April – May 2021 | The Good Sight
Operation Eyesight was featured in The Good Sight’s “Catalyst for Change” e-coffee table book, which showcases some of the most powerful development models across sectors such as health, women empowerment and education.
April 23, 2020 | Globe Newswire
Canada: Calgary charity shifts priorities to provide humanitarian aid in developing countries during COVID-19 pandemic
As COVID-19 continues to spread around the world, Calgary-based international charity, Operation Eyesight, is applying the organization’s systems and experience in providing…
July 16, 2020 | ACGC
How to partner with the MoH – at the nationaCatalysts of Change: Relieving Challenges and Pressures for Women as They Confront Pressing Community Health Concerns
Operation Eyesight has been working for the last 57 years with local government and partner hospitals to eliminate avoidable blindness.
May 4, 2020 | CCIC
Keeping an eye on COVID-19: Operation Eyesight’s approach to leveraging its network in times of crisis
COVID-19 is a health crisis whose impacts will devastate economies and increase inequality around the world. In addition to concerns here at home…
April 28, 2020 | IAPB
International Eye Health Industry: How to partner with the Ministry of Health – at the national, district, health facility and community level
Advocacy is an organized attempted change of policy, practice, and/or attitudes by presenting evidence and arguments for how and why change should happen.
October 26, 2019 | 1310 News
Canada: Operation Eyesight in a conversation with Sam Laprade on An Hour to Give
In October 2019, Aly Bandali, our former President and CEO, Andrew Judson, a former Operation Eyesight board member and Laurie Manion, a gratitude volunteer, had a conversation with Sam Laprade on her program, An Hour to Give, on 1310 News in Ottawa. Listen to the podcast here!
