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About SightLife
Founded in 1969, SightLife is the only non-profit global health organization and eye bank solely focused on eliminating corneal blindness in the U.S. and around the world. Driven by an entrepreneurial spirit as an eye bank, the organization leverages innovative technologies and best business practices to transform lives and unlock life's possibilities for the corneal blind. SightLife works in partnership with surgeons and health organizations in more than 30 countries and SightLife and its partners combined provided more than 10,000 corneas for transplant in 2011.
SightLife’s primary service regions in the United States are Washington state, Northern Idaho, Montana, California’s San Joaquin Valley, and Kaiser Permanente in Northern California. We meet 100% of the need for transplant tissue in these regions with no waiting list. We also help to fill shortages in other parts of the nation.
Blindness Kills
Facts about a highly-curable disease:
- There are 37 million blind people in the world. Over 10 million are cornea blind.
- Fifty percent of the more than 1 million blind children living in developing countries right now will die within one to two years.
- Treatments to prevent and cure blindness are among the least expensive and most successful of all health interventions.
- We are working now to establish sight-restoring transplant centers in developing nations.
