Global Perspective

1. In line with our qualifications, experience of two decades of running charitable eye healthcare services and our core competence, our pioneer project is for the Visually Challenged as a number one priority. The scope is;
   1. Sensitising the community and mobilising the general public's opinion towards awareness to promote prevention and early detection of eye healthcare.
   2. Promoting the inclusion of people with disabilities in line with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD), and Convention on the Rights of Child (UNCRC).
   3. Cooperate and explore the avenues of mutually beneficial relationships with national and international initiatives having similar goals. Align our efforts with the global (UN & International Association for Prevention of Blindness) and Domestic initiatives (National and Provincial Committees for Eye Health, Pakistan).
   4. Strive to provide eye healthcare to the underprivileged on a pure humanitarian basis, without compromising the quality of services or any discrimination as to religious belief, gender, colour, caste, creed or paying power of the people.
   5. Create and manage School Eye Healthcare Services, Industrial labour and Farmers Eye Healthcare Services in an early intervention program focusing on screening for visual loss in school-going children and Industrial/ farm workers.
   6. Creating and running an inter-connected network of eye care services, facilitating the journey from the doorstep all the way up to the Center of Excellence. Create and manage, Secondary and Tertiary Eye Healthcare facilities as per the following scheme;
   7. Promote Human Resource Development  programs in every allied discipline of Ophthalmology, to begin with, and to extend the scope thereafter in other disciplines.
   8. Advocacy in these matters to promote legislation by Provincial and Federal governments in these regards, thus contributing our humble efforts toward the achievement of the vision as mentioned above.
   9. We aim to work with the Government, NGOs, Corporations, individual donors, & community members to establish a safe space for those who are differently abled by addressing all forms of disability (given the support and availability of resources) and creating accessible services for those that need them the most.

Inception in 2004,

We started working for the above Mission, at a humble level at Bahadurabad, Karachi, Pakistan, as Sheikh Aziz-ur-Rehman Memorial Eye Clinic 2004. This initiative was organised as Danishsra Welfare Association, registered under Pakistan's Voluntary Social Welfare Agencies (Registration And Control Ordinance 1961).

Re-organization;

In 2009, we re-structured our legal framework and transformed it into Vision Trust, registered under The Trusts Act (II OF 1882) of Pakistan.

Presently;

For want of expansion of our service base and workload capacity, in 2016, we moved our clinic to bigger and better premises near Islamia College, Karachi, Pakistan, courtesy of K&N’s Foundation, which is registered under section 42 of The Companies Act, 2017 of Pakistan. The eyecare facility, Khairun’nisa Eye Hospital, is a project of K&N’s Foundation, managed by Vision Trust.

Achievements and Aspirations;

Over all these years, thousands of underprivileged have benefited from high-quality medical and surgical eye care. Moreover, this has provided us with a firm foothold in society and a step to move on. It also reflects our unwavering resolve, perseverance, and the success of our working and financial model. Immediate Future Plans; Our School Eye Health Services are being initiated with organisations like Nasra School Trust, Ida Rieu School for Deaf and Dumb, Al-Furqan schools and IA with Green Cresent Schools.

With The Citizen Foundation and with Read Foundation, our objective is to provide eyesight screening to as many school-going children as possible and to provide glasses. We intend to facilitate those who need secondary or even tertiary care.

We intend to empower the schools by training their staff to conduct simple and routine eyesight screening tests on an annual basis. The central theme is to install/ empower the schools to create and manage a self-sustainable eyesight screening mechanism. Once established, this can include other school health components like nutrition, hearing defects, etc., and rehabilitation of the blind. Long-Term Future Plans; To set up a Human Resource Development, Teaching, and Training Facility from the ground up, a comprehensive eye care facility, providing quality eye to privileged,  and underprivileged alike and those in need to be treated free of cost.

In the year 2022, we have morphed yet again as Vision Healthcare Foundation a company incorporated with SECP, under section 42 of the company act, 2017.