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At Johnson & Johnson, the company said its corporate social responsibility efforts are guided by its three pillars of corporate responsibility: improving global health, improving local communities, and ensuring the sustainability of the planet. And J&J Vision focuses globally on two signature efforts that preserve and restore sight.

They are: the Himalayan Cataract Project and Sight for Kids. With the former, co-founders Sanduk Ruit MD, and American ophthalmologist, Geoff Tabin MD, have recognized the unmet eye health need in the Himalayas and made a vow in 1995 to eliminate preventable and treatable blindness. (Ruit was born in Nepal and educated in India.) Never in their lifetimes did they believe they would change the arc of global blindness in Nepal, but that is what they did, according to J&J.





The Himalayan Cataract Project and its extensive network of partners today work across South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa to bring world-class eyecare to the needlessly blind through quality care, clinical training and the establishment of first-rate ophthalmic infrastructures. As a result, over 739,000 people from 17 countries now see and live better.

With its effort on behalf of Sight for Kids, the company strives to address the situation of the 19 million children who are visually impaired. Sight for Kids has provided school-based eye health education and vision screening to more than 25 million kids around the world with Lions Clubs International Foundation and local partners.

Through Sight for Kids, J&J Vision has provided access to eye health education and services, including free exams and eyeglasses, to approximately 500,000 children. The company said that, working with local partners, it aspires to double the number of children helped through Sight for Kids by 2021.

In addition, Johnson & Johnson Vision is “committed to creating a healthier world” through its global, proactive sustainability initiatives. Its focus is in three specific areas: climate, waste reduction and protection of natural resources.

“We have significantly reduced our carbon footprint over the past 10 years by prioritizing energy efficiency in our production technology and harnessing renewable energy with wind turbines and solar power in the U.S. and the United Kingdom,” the company noted. “By further reducing secondary packaging for our all of products, we have made significant headway in reducing the impact of shipping, distribution, energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.”