The Ghaswala Vision Foundation is a registered public charitable trust established on June 1, 2002. The foundation supports various activities related to eye care and blindness in general but the main focus of the foundation is to fight corneal blindness.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that 39 million people worldwide are blind, and another 246 million people live with moderate or severe visual impairments. The main reason for blindness in developing countries is cataract.