Urgent: Help Keep Eye Care Alive in Rural Haiti

Dr. Anshu Chandra urgently needs your help to sustain eye care in rural Haiti, where she built an eye clinic in 2015, performing 120,000 exams. The clinic must relocate as the current space needs to be vacated. Funds are critical to build a new facility and continue this vital service.

Every day, thousands in Haiti live without the ability to see the faces of their loved ones or the world around them. For many, basic eye care is an unattainable luxury.

Since 2008, the Bay Eye Charitable Foundation (BECF) has been committed to restoring sight and improving the quality of life for Haiti’s most vulnerable communities.

In 2015, Dr. Anshu Chandra started a full-time eye clinic in Fond-des-Blancs, a rural area with no access to eye care. People travel for hours—or even days—to get care there. Today, we treat over 100 patients daily, and have conducted over 120,000 eye exams, restored sight, and prevented blindness.

We have also trained the local Haitians to deliver high-quality eye care that meets international standards, empowering them to sustain this service long term.

We’ve achieved all of this with minimal funding, operating with extreme efficiency. Our U.S.-based non-profit is entirely volunteer-run with no overhead costs, including Anshu's role as an unpaid volunteer.

However, we now face a crisis. The building housing our clinic is no longer available. We urgently need to raise $300,000 to build a new, permanent clinic. Without immediate relocation, we will be forced to shut down.

We need your help! A tax-deductible contribution—of any amount—will help construct a new facility and keep this essential service alive.

Your support will restore sight—and bring hope—to those who need it most. We are deeply grateful for your consideration.