ZEISS Supports World Sight Day 2024

Community Eye Clinic
Joint project by ZEISS, Dentists on Wheels and the Cione Ruta de la Luz Foundation: The first community eye clinic was opened in Missirah. The ambitious project represents a significant milestone for the visual health of this large, needy population suffering from severe vision problems. 

Congenital Cataract
Together with its partner, Optik Tunggal, ZEISS is committed to donate 2025 pairs of spectacles for children with congenital cataract in Indonesia. Optik Tunggal and ZEISS share a common concern for children’s visual impairment and have consistently provided vision care help for the underprivileged.

Rare eye conditions in newborn babies
The ZEISS CLARUS 700 empowers the atlas of retinopathy of prematurity and other neonatal diseases, providing unparalleled insights into rare eye conditions in newborns to safeguard infants' vision and prevent vision loss.
 

Vision for Future Project in 2023
Together with Renovatio NGO and the Petropolis City Hall ZEISS screened more than 2,200 children, gave medical consultation and optic when needed. ZEISS donated 302 eyeglasses.

Free Lunch Fund with Eye-care Charity Initiatives for Rural Children

2023 marked the 10th anniversary of ZEISS Vision Care China charity initiative for kids, together with the Free Lunch Fund under China Social Welfare Foundation. For that time ZEISS has been alongside the customers, visiting more than one 100 schools in remote areas to conduct vision screenings and eye health checks for tens of thousands of children, with free eyeglasses and eye care educational sessions. Meanwhile, more than 1.75million nutritious lunches were donated to the charity fund, caring for the healthy growth of rural children.
 

Restoring sight for a 5-year-old cataract patient
Five-year-old Buyandeleger was born with a cataract in her right eye. The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital team stepped in to help give Buyandeleger her full sight.

Myopia management for school-age kids
There are many options for managing or even slowing the progression of myopia in school-aged children. Dr. Leanne Liddicoat describes two cases from her clinic and how she decided on the best approach for her patients.

Enabling life-long eye health
Diagnostic devices from ZEISS help the Fiat Lux Foundation to enable life-long eye health for patients old and young in Mozambique.
 

Aloka Vision Programme as social business in India, Nepal and beyond
ZEISS and partners provide unserved and underprivileged communities with basic quality eye care – in partnership with NGOs, hospitals, eye clinics, colleges and customers. Per year we serve about 1,000,000 patients. But often, social businesses do not reach underprivileged children, e.g. in orphanages. Here we fund eye care through our registered charity for 50-100,000 children every year.

IOFF Fellowship
Good medical training forms the basis of good health care. Since 2020, Carl Zeiss Meditec Group supports the International Ophthalmological Fellowship Foundation e.V. (IOFF). During placements lasting several months at hospitals with state-of-the-art equipment, doctors can improve their skills in ophthalmology and later harness the knowledge gained for their work in their native countries.

Changing the way the world sees
ZEISS supports Orbis, an international nonprofit, with headquarters in New York, that builds strong and sustainable eye care systems globally, putting treatment and prevention within reach so everyone can access the eye care they need to thrive.
 

Revolutionizing Ophthalmic Care

With advanced diagnostic equipment from ZEISS, Health in Sight Mission of Roatan is developing a self-sustaining eye clinic to provide care to those in need and revolutionize the way ophthalmic care is delivered by the mission organization through telemedicine and remote training of local doctors.