Give the Gift of Sight

Corneal blindness is one of the most common and also most easily treated causes of blindness. The treatment, however, depends on the availability of healthy corneas, donated by people upon their death. People who wish to donate their corneas (one person can donate two corneas, one from each eye, to effectively enable two blind persons to see) may pledge their eyes by filling out a pledge card that they then carry upon their person.

Apart from pledging your own eyes, you can help the eye bank at LVPEI (and eye banks around the world) by motivating your family and close friends to do the same, and by helping such people carry through their pledge at the time of death. To find out more about eye donation, visit the Eye Bank section of this site.