Calgary, November 18, 2025:Â Operation Eyesight has been recognized by Charity Intelligence Canada (Ci) as a 2025 Top 10 Impact Charity (this is the eighth consecutive year for this recognition) and a Top 10 International Impact Charity for the sixth consecutive year. Ci evaluates more than 800 Canadian charities based on five criteria: financial transparency, results reporting, demonstrated impact, need for funding and cents to the cause.
Operation Eyesight is an international development organization and registered charity founded in Calgary in 1963, that works to prevent blindness and restore sight in 11 countries across Africa, North America and South Asia. Work is supported by generous donors and a growing global community.
Globally, 1.1 billion people live with vision loss, which is projected to reach nearly 1.8 billion by 2050, costing the global economy an estimated $411 USD billion annually. Fortunately, 90 per cent of all vision loss is preventable or treatable. That’s where Operation Eyesight comes in.
With a global focus and a local approach, Operation Eyesight’s work is fueled by the belief that everyone should have access to quality, affordable eye health care, regardless of ability to pay, gender, age or location. People in low- and middle-income countries as well as in rural and remote communities everywhere are often underserved. Addressing avoidable vision loss for all helps people better secure quality education, employment, independence and opportunities. This helps people transform their lives – see Benjamin’s story to learn how.Â
Operation Eyesight’s impact comes from facilitating locally driven solutions. In-country teams are on the ground, building partnerships with communities, ministries of heath and education, and like-minded organizations. This builds local eye health systems that communities run now and for generations to come – For All The World To See.
Impact in 2024
Vision is about far more than sight – it is about reducing poverty, improving good health and well-being, supporting access to quality education, contributing to gender equality, ensuring clean water and sanitation, addressing climate action and building partnerships for the goals. These are all United Nations Sustainable Development Goals that will help to build a more peaceful and prosperous world for all. Through the support of its generous donors, Operation Eyesight has been contributing to a building a more equitable world for more than six decades.
In 2024 alone, through local partnerships, Operation Eyesight screened 2.36 million people, performed more than 280,000 eye surgeries and distributed more than 270,000 pairs of prescription eyeglasses, while also declaring 233 villages Avoidable Blindness-Free. Read Operation Eyesight’s Annual Report to learn more about our impact in 2024. View 2024 highlights below.
About Operation Eyesight
Operation Eyesight Universal is an international development organization working to eliminate avoidable vision loss and bring quality eye health care to communities where it’s needed most.
Founded in Calgary, Canada in 1963, over the past six decades it Operation Eyesight has grown to become a global community that spans four continents and includes health workers and volunteers, physicians and ophthalmic personnel, donors, partners, staff and board members.
Whether it’s a simple pair of eyeglasses or a more complex eye surgery, Operation Eyesight believes that everyone should have access to affordable, quality eye health care services. Operation Eyesight’s mission is to prevent blindness and restore sight – For All The World To See.Â
Operation Eyesight exists due to the generosity of donors who have supported this work for more than 60 years.
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