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About Us
What is Right to Sight
Right to Sight was founded as a non-profit organisation in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland by eye surgeon, Dr Kate Coleman. It was launched in March 2006 by former High Commissioner of the United Nations, the former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson and actor Ralph Fiennes.
Right to Sight is not a traditional charity. We won't duplicate the work of other charities.
Right to Sight is a unique collection of world experts from the corporate sector, the eye care sector and the government sector, brought together with the specific goal to eliminate preventable blindness in the world.
Right to Sight is based on a human rights model of development, acknowledging every person’s right to treatment and prevention of blinding eye conditions.
Our Mission Statement
To eradicate the global crisis of preventable blindness through the use of proven, leading edge techniques in cost recovery, training and surgical practice.
Why Right to Sight
Right to Sight has entered the field of international eye care at a time when the industry has yet to exploit recent technological and clinical advances, which make possible the elimination of avoidable blindness. The Right to Sight experts are working to overcome obvious deficiencies throughout the eye care sector which have prevented a major scale up of eye care solutions.
Right to Sight believe that the following elements are crucial to their mission:
- Partnerships, especially public-private partnerships in the corporate sector
- Systematic and scaleable approaches, especially in relation to refractive error and cataract surgery
- Programmatic innovation
- Co-ordination and competition to promote best practice
Right to Sight Supporters
Right to Sight works as a facilitator and bridge through partnerships, rather than developing a unique organisational infrastructure, ensuring resources to patients are maximised and in-country efforts are not duplicated.
Delivery Partners
Right to Sight seeks to collaborate with NGO partners with excellent on-the-ground infrastructure, through which to fund and channel training consultancies and unit support in hospital management and eye care provision.
Human Resources Partners
Right to Sight has to date partnered the most successful eye care training programmes in the world, Aravind and LV Prasad, to train and scale up its consultancies.
Governance Partners
Right to Sight aims to work closely with members of the governing Departments of Health and /or education in target countries in order to facilitate sustainable national V2020 eye care governance with funded national co-ordination.
Corporate Partners
Right to Sight has identified a social investment strategy that provides easily identifiable humanitarian returns for large scale corporate and foundation investment.
Right to Sight knows that there is no global shortage of willing partners to fund the elimination 75% of world blindness, which is preventable and treatable. That the resolution of the crisis relies wholly on provision of human resources and expertise in a scalable fashion.
Right to Sight will provide these resources through partnerships and collaboration.
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