Partners in Service

Aravind gratefully acknowledges its well-wishers and partner organisations for their unstinting support towards its sight restoration work. Though Aravind’s core services are financed internally, community support on various levels have taken it a step closer to achieving its mission of eliminating needless blindness.

For Service Delivery, Training and more

  • Alcon Laboratories Inc, USA
  • Carl Zeiss Meditec, Germany
  • CBM International, Germany
  • Centre for Innovation in Public Systems, Hyderabad, India
  • Combat Blindness Foundation, USA
  • Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, USA
  • Dana Center, Johns Hopkins University, USA
  • Essilor, India
  • Fred Hollows Foundation, Australia
  • General Insurance Corporation of India, Mumbai, India
  • HCL Foundation, New Delhi, India
  • Indian Overseas Bank, India
  • International Agency for Prevention of Blindness, UK
  • International Council for Ophthalmology, USA
  • Kaushal Devendra Gupta, Pune, India
  • Lavelle Fund for the Blind, USA
  • Lions Clubs International Foundation, USA
  • London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
  • Manohar Devadoss, Chennai, India
  • Mehra Eyetech Private Limited, Puducherry
  • Novartis, Switzerland
  • ORBIS International, USA
  • Rotary International, USA
  • Schwab Foundation and Social Entrepreneurship, Switzerland
  • Seva, Canada
  • Seva Foundation, USA
  • Shyam Prakash Gupta, Madurai, India
  • SightLife, USA
  • SightSavers, UK
  • State Bank of India, India
  • Standard Chartered Bank & Scope Intl., UK
  • So-Hum Foundation, USA
  • Subroto Bagchi, Odisha, India
  • The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust, UK
  • The Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University
  • Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, India
  • TOMS, USA
  • Topcon, Japan
  • University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  • University of California, Berkeley, USA
  • University of Michigan, USA
  • USAID, USA
  • VISION 2020 – The Right to Sight, India
  • Wescott Williams Ltd., UK
  • World Diabetes Foundation, Denmark
  • World Health Organization, Switzerland
  • XOVA: Excellence in Ophthalmology Vision Award, USA

For Research

  • Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India
  • Aravind Eye Foundation, USA
  • Cognizant Foundation, Chennai, India
  • Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
  • Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India
  • Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi, India
  • Department of Health Research, New Delhi, India
  • Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India
  • Duke University, USA
  • Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Dartmouth
  • Google, Mountainview, CA
  • Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon NH, USA
  • India Alliance, Hyderabad, India
  • Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India
  • Indian Paediatric Glaucoma Interest Group (IPGI), Chandigarh
  • Indian School of Business, Hyderabad
  • John Hopkins University, USA
  • Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan, USA
  • London Business School, UK
  • Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India
  • Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA
  • Michigan State University, USA
  • MIND TREE, Bangalore, India
  • Moorfields Eye Hospital, London
  • National Eye Institute, USA
  • National Healthcare Group Eye Institute, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
  • National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Neuroptics Research Laboratory, Berkeley, USA
  • Peninsula Eye surgery centre, Los Altos, CA
  • Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India
  • Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
  • Proctor Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, USA
  • Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), Gurgaon, Haryana
  • Queens University Belfast, UK
  • Sastra University, Thanjavur, India
  • Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi, India
  • Seva Foundation, USA
  • Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
  • Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
  • State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, New York, USA
  • Sun Pharma, Mumbai, India
  • Tufts School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • Unite des Aspergillus, Institut Pasteur, Paris
  • University College, London
  • University of California, Berkeley, USA
  • University of California, San Francisco, USA
  • University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
  • University of Ulster, Northern Island, UK
  • Vision Research Foundation, Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, India
  • Wellcome Trust, UK
  • Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, USA
  • World Health Organization, Switzerland

Management Support to Eye Hospitals

Aravind Eye Hospitals and LAICO offer management services to socially committed partners working in underserved areas of India and other developing countries, in establishing and running the eye hospitals effectively. Under this initiative, Aravind provides holistic assistance, starting with the design of the facility, recruiting and training the local human resources, helping them adopt proven systems and processes, sharing Aravind developed IT systems like IHMS & EMR, and hand-holding in the initial period by deploying a select team from Aravind during the start-up period.

Currently, Aravind works with

  • Priyamvada Birla Aravind Eye Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal (since 2001)
  • Sudarshan Netralay, Amreli, Gujarat (since 2007)
  • Tulsi Chanrai Foundation Eye Hospital, Abuja, Nigeria (since 2018)
  • Sitapur Eye Hospital, Uttar Pradesh (since 2021)