Empowering women through eye care - Akhand Jyoti

To end

BLINDNESS

and

EMPOWER WOMEN

for lasting change

About Us

Akhand Jyoti, founded in 2005 as a unit of the Yugrishi Shriram Sharma Acharya Charitable Trust (YSSACT), is a women-led non-profit working to eliminate curable blindness from the face of Bihar and other underserved regions of India.

Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospital - Centre of Excellence

Our Work Stands on Three Core Pillars

A connected approach to SIGHT, ACCESS, and SOCIAL CHANGE.

Eye Health - Ophthalmologist examining patient

Eye Health

Eye Health

Delivering advanced treatment to restore vision, break cycles of poverty, and improve the quality of life

Women Empowerment - Healthcare professionals

Women Empowerment

Women Empowerment

Training and enabling women to become leaders in eye care, creating lasting social change

Targeted Rural Interventions - Community engagement

Targeted Rural Interventions

Targeted Rural Interventions

Taking eye care directly to underserved communities across low-income regions

Workingattheintersectionofpoverty,blindness,andgenderdisparity,westrivetobreakthecyclethatholdsmillionsbackbyrestoringsight,expandingopportunity,andensuringthatwomenareattheforefrontofthischange.

Elderly woman - representing the impact of blindness in India

1 out of 5 Blind People Live in India

Blindness is overwhelmingly concentrated in India. And Bihar, being the poorest, bears the largest share of the burden.

But we are changing that.

Empowering Girlsto Become Social Change Catalysts

We equip young girls with education and opportunity
to become agents of social change and lead the blindness elimination drive.

Because empowering women changes everything.

Empowering girls to become social change catalysts - Women in medical training

Our Mission & Vision

Empowering WOMEN to lead the ELIMINATION of curable blindness.

Mission

To transform society through a unique model of empowerment that turns rural women into social change agents through education and optometry training, and eliminates curable blindness by making world-class eye care affordable and accessible to low-income areas.

Vision

To eliminate gender bias and curable blindness by empowering women to lead the change towards creating a blind-free Bihar.