Urgent USAID funding cuts - all gifts matched! Donate
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A $25 donation can provide the material cost of one sight-restoring surgery

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USAID has terminated 3 grants that had been allocated to support our mission, leaving us with a gap of $700,000 in our 2025 budget. 

Thanks to donors like you, Cure Blindness Project teams and partners have been working tirelessly to eliminate avoidable blindness throughout South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and South America. These cuts will place a significant burden on our work of curing blindness.

We remain committed to bringing critical eye care to those in need, and helping communities throughout the globe lift themselves from darkness and poverty. We need your support now more than ever to continue this important work.

To help close this funding gap, two of our generous donors have challenged us to raise $350,000 – and they will match that sum with their own private gifts. This means your donation will be doubled and have twice the impact in ensuring underserved communities have access to quality eye care.

I believe this is probably the best you can do to humankind. It's so cost effective and it gives so much. So much power, so much change in the life of people.

– Dr. Sanduk Ruit, Co-Founder

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Cure Blindness Project takes great pride in our financial efficiency and accountability. We work to maximize the value of every donation we receive and strive to direct those funds where they are most needed in support of our efforts to eradicate preventable blindness throughout the world.

Himalayan Cataract Project (dba Cure Blindness Project) is a registered 501(c)(3) organization and has received a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator for eight consecutive years. Donations to the Himalayan Cataract Project are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.
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