Right to Sight and Health

Founded in 2007, Right to Sight and Health is a non-governmental organisation based in Tamale, Ghana working on health, disability.

Right to Sight and Health is a non-profit organisation established in 2007 in the United States to provide medical and eye care to underserved populations in developing countries. Its Ghana work centres on building a private, non-profit, sustainable eye care network in northern Ghana, known as the Northern Community Eye Network, which aims to cure needless blindness and treat all eye diseases regardless of patients' ability to pay. Its work includes operating and supporting Tamale Eye Hospital, supporting a vision centre in Vittin, Tamale, training eye care workers, and running cataract surgery and medical missions. The organisation operates a social business model in which the hospital and vision centre are financially self-sufficient and pay no dividends, and it is based on the Aravind Model from India. Its US office is in Weehawken, New Jersey, and its Ghana base is in Tamale.