Blindness is both a cause and a consequence of poverty. When vision fades, livelihoods collapse, and the cycle of poverty tightens its grip.

In low-income regions, curable blindness thrives not because treatment doesn't exist, but because it's out of reach: too distant, too costly, or simply unknown.

The impact runs deep and generational. Children drop out of school to support families. Women, already facing barriers to healthcare, are most often the last to receive care.

Where poverty runs deepest, blindness isn't just a medical condition - it's a social crisis. And it is in these very places that restoring sight becomes the most powerful form of change.