London philanthropist aims to cure poverty-related blindness worldwide

London philanthropist Tej Kohli is funding large-scale pioneering research and treatment programs for conditions that cause sight loss.

Tej Kohli has united with Dr Sanduk Ruit in a global mission to combat needless cataract blindness in poor and underserved communities. Together they aim to build a lasting legacy of social and economic change.
With a sense of occasion on the day that she received surgery from the Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation to cure her cataract blindness, Murathi Parsi arrived draped in a beautiful saree.
Murathi with other patients who were cured of cataract blindness at the inaugural Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation outreach camp in Nepal. Pictured with ‘God of Sight’ Dr Sanduk Ruit.
The inaugural cataract microsurgical outreach camp of the Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation at the birthplace of Buddha in Nepal, March 2021.
A few hours after having her blindness cured by the Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation, 14-year-old Bipani can see the forest, the hills, the mountains, and the sky. Pictured alongside fellow cataract patients.
A patient is screened at the Tej Kohli Cornea Institute in 2019.
The Tej Kohli Cornea Institute welcomed over 223,404 outpatients between 2015 and the end of 2019.
Tej Kohli Cornea Institute medical faculty undertake a corneal transplant surgery to cure a patient of blindness in 2019.
A line of women await screening at a Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation outreach camp in Nepal. Needless blindness disproportionately impacts women living in poor communities due to multiple inequalities.
‘God of Sight’ Dr Sanduk Ruit performs a surgical procedure to cure a Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation patient of cataract blindness in a makeshift operating theatre during a microsurgical outreach camp in April 2021.
A member of the Tej Kohli Cornea Institute medical faculty prepares donor cornea for transplantation.
The Tej Kohli Cornea Program at Massachusetts Eye And Ear is funding technological innovations to cure corneal blindness.
The Tej Kohli Cornea Program at Massachusetts Eye And Ear is supporting the development of ‘GelCORE’, an adhesive biomaterial technology.
A researcher working on LiQD, a possible non-surgical alternative cure for some forms of corneal blindness.
Staff prepare daily meals at a ‘Funda Kohli’ canteen in Costa Rica, one of a network of canteens that have fed children for free daily since 2005.
Two young girls eat for free at a Tej Kohli Foundation ‘Funda Kohli’ canteen in Costa Rica, Tej Kohli’s most longstanding philanthropic project.
The Tej Kohli #FutureBionics program is funding 3D-printed bionic arms for young people in the United Kingdom.

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The Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation is advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goal to end poverty everywhere by making grassroots interventions to cure blindness.

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Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation

The Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation is advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goal to end poverty everywhere by making grassroots interventions to cure blindness.