May trip to India: with many surprises.

During our recent trip to India, we made significant progress in finalizing plans for the Green Goutami Building in Rajahmundry. We submitted the final paperwork, ensuring that all minor changes requested (multiple times) by the corporation were addressed. The...
Touchdown in Guatemala-November 2023

Touchdown in Guatemala-November 2023

We are so excited to share that we have landed in Guatemala to perform vision saving surgeries. This past April we visited with support from the Indian Embassy of Guatemala to screen and diagnose patients with vision impairments.  We want to thank everyone that helped...

2023 Impact Report

See the Latest in Childhood Blindness PreventionDownload our 2023 impact report and see all the work EFA and Goutami has accomplished working together. Download...

Rutgers-Oral History Archive

The original interview may be viewed at:  https://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/alphabetical-index/interviewees/64-text-html/2715-raju-v-k Description: Vadrevu “VK” Raju, MD, FRCS, FACS, is a surgeon and humanitarian who is a university professor and founder and...

Avoidable Blindness Elimination Project

Avoidable Blindness Elimination Project Download the most recent report: Avoidable Blindness Elimination Project in partnership with Kog Kriationz. Learn more about their projects at https://kogkriationznetwork.com/ Download Report Download 2023...
Meet Asifa

Meet Asifa

Little Asifa, is from a mandal near the river town East Godavari, India.    Asifa developed strabismus, a condition that caused her eyes to look in two different directions when focusing.    She was too young to realize that her blurred vision was a symptom that...

Ophthalmology Basics

Ophthalmology Basics Creating a focus in Vision Prevention begins in children According to WHO it is estimated that global costs of productivity loss from vision impairment is estimated at $244 billion. Our Mission We work with the goal of eliminating avoidable...

Mobile Eye Camps-Rural Outreach

Rural Outreach Programs EFA Mobile Eye Camps What Drives Us Reaching Rural Areas This Mobile Eye Clinic is meant exclusively for the nooks of rural community screenings. Since the inception of rural eye camps to date we have examined about 700,000 out-patients and...

Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP)

Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) Preventing a lifetime of blindness in premature babies 15 million premature babies are born worldwide Prevention is worth a pound of cure What is ROP?  Retinopathy of prematurity effects premature babies. If left untreated it will...