By: The Tej Kohli and Ruit Foundation

The Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation has a mission to support and cure people living with needless cataract blindness in developing nations, and in turn eliminate extreme poverty.

All 20 Articles

This London Tycoon Harbours A Surprisingly Generous Streak

City Talk

Some may know Tej Kohli for his passion for luxury cars or his vast array of exceptional properties dotted across the world. However, what he should be best known for is his unwavering mission to give away swathes of his wealth to improve the lives of others. As Britain’s wealthiest became wealthier in recent years, [...]
New documentary released on childhood cataracts and extreme poverty

City Talk

The Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation has released a brand new documentary short that showcases how childhood cataracts can exacerbate a families poverty. The documentary follows a family of six in the rural Jajakot region of Nepal. Three of the four children suffer have lived with needless cataract blindness for years and the eldest of [...]
Six facts you may not know about gender and blindness

City Talk

Women make up 55% of the world’s visually impaired, that is around 609 million women. Women are 12% more likely to develop some form of visual impairment and have 8% higher chances of becoming entirely blind compared to men. As women’s life expectancies are longer, they are more likely to develop age-related eye problems such [...]

Curing blindness in some of the most isolated regions of Nepal

October 21, 2022

In March 2022, the Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation staged one of the biggest mountainous area cataract microsurgical camps ever organized in Nepal. It was here that 333 patients returned home with full vision after their blindness was cured. Whilst this was ongoing, another team working with the foundation were busy screening patients in Nepal’s [...]
Tears of happiness: How curing blindness in Dolakha saved a girls future

October 14, 2022

Dolakha is located in northeastern Nepal. Popular amongst tourists and natives, its natural beauty, cultural sites and array of hiking trails attract people from far and wide. One of the largest attractions in the area is the Bhimsen Temple, a site dedicated to one of the brothers in the epic Sanskrit poem Mahabharata. The temple [...]
The Tej Kohli Ruit Foundation joins World Sight Day 2022 pledge

October 13, 2022

Today marks World Sight Day 2022. Many ophthalmologists and eye care organisations all over the world are preparing for the day by pledging their eye screenings to IAPB (International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness) World Sight Day campaign. This year, the Tej Kohli and Ruit Foundation is pledging 27,472 eye screenings that have taken [...]
Shri Mani: A story of success after sight is restored

October 6, 2022

The Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation shares a story of a patient in Nepal that was cured of needless cataract blindness in 2021. Shri Mani Rai lives in the remote area of the Himalayan outback and suffered with cataract-induced blindness for many years without any medical treatment. With access to the area restricted due to [...]
Curing cataracts in Nepal’s most isolated areas

October 5, 2022

On the 16th of April, the Tej Kohli and Ruit Foundation conducted their second high-volume outreach microsurgical eye camp (OMEC). This took place in Nepal’s Solukhumbu District which is located in the foothills of Mount Everest. The camp took place over three days with the groundwork for the camp being planned long before. Unlike previous [...]
Driven to suicide by blindness: How a woman finds a second chance at sight and life

October 2, 2022

Losing one’s sight is terrifying and daunting. It leaves the visually impaired person reliant on those around them to assist them in navigating their way through the world. Without the help and generosity of others, it can lead to a loss of hope and tragically sometimes life. 55-year-old Chyo Maya Praja lives high up in [...]
Discrimination against Dalits: How status can affect eye health

September 30, 2022

The Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation has recently set up camps in Nepal where members of the highly discriminated against Dalits received cataract-curing surgery. Many cultures have systems of hierarchy entwined in their makeup. In the United Kingdom we have had the hierarchy of Kings and Queens, Knights and Noblemen, followed by merchants and peasants. [...]

HSBC: City market’s top firm turns to Asia and Middle East

Premiership run-in: Saints and Bath will impact top four

Here We Are, National Theatre, review: Stephen Sondheim musical is more Severance than sing-a-long

By: The Tej Kohli and Ruit Foundation

All 20 Articles

Subscribe