After the success of the last year, the Tej Kohli and Ruit Foundation is beginning to move into new regions. In just one year, the Tej Kohli and Ruit Foundation operated on and cured over 17,000 people in Nepal. Continuing the journey, the next plans are to move into neighbouring country, Bhutan.
Tej Kohli enjoys an enviable lifestyle which reflects the wealth that he has amassed since launching and later selling a series of payment technology companies. He can boast a collection of ultra-rare hyper cars, a private jet, multiple homes and a wine collection that rivals those of the most discerning collectors. But Kohli’s true life mission and the thing that he is building his legacy on is not material assets. It is curing people of blindness in the developing world as a catalyst for boosting social and economic development.
For many people, when their sight is lost so is their independence. 81-year-old Singye’s story is of a cataract operation that benefitted not just him, but his family too and proves that sight opens the doors to economic success.
This month, the Tej Kohli and Ruit Foundation traveled to the Kingdom of Bhutan on a mission to eradicate cataract blindness to reduce extreme poverty. This is part of a collaboration between the Foundation, the Bhutanese Ministry of Health, and the Royal Government of Bhutan under the Royal Patronage of Her Majesty Gyalyum Kesang Choeden Wangchuck.
The Tej Kohli and Ruit Foundation is an organisation that has cured over 17,000 people of cataract blindness via grassroots interventions across the developing world. Co-founder Tej Kohli has explained why he believes that this is the best way to increase economic production in marginalised communities.
Blindness and visual defects have become increasingly prevalent in many developing countries across the world. Whilst many countries are doing all they can to reduce poverty-stricken communities — the support for blindness lacks.
