SEE International

donations and funds raising for the blind eyes needed it most

SEE International is a nonprofit organisation which helps in treating the visually disabled and also training eye care providers.
My sister Gajjalla Madhavi Reddy is an ardent supporter of this organisation and she keeps me updated about the good work this organisation is doing. I myself am an ophthalmologist for the last 35 yrs.

I've been a supporter for years and presently sit on the all-volunteer board. The return on investment (i.e., the number of vision restorative surgeries cf. to $/surgery) has been incredible. Highly recommended--worthy of support!

I have volunteered on SEE’s international eye surgery mission trips, and have seen firsthand how much positive impact they have on local, medically-underserved communities. I’m excited to see that they are starting to focus more on training local doctors, and would like to rate them with 5 stars.

Over the last 10 years, it’s been a joy and privilege to watch SEE international grow and help so many of the forgotten……
All over the world, people have benefitted from this incredible organization gifting the most precious gift of all, eyesight.

As a donor, it is a cause I am proud to support, for the rest of my life. And I urge others to give in whatever capacity they can.

Their plan to train surgical ophthalmologists in other countries is a wonderful concept. It will ensure that eye care will be available for patients in low income areas of this world.

SEE has provided our nonprofit organization Lao Rehabilitation Foundation with support with volunteer ophthalmologists and supplies for our mobile cataract surgery missions in remote areas of Laos since 2008, without interruption. They have been great partners to make these programs possible, we are grateful for their support.

Arunodaya Charitable Trust (ACT) is a non profit working to reverse the tide of curable blindness in India , since 1990.

SEE iNTERNATIONAL HAS PARTNERED WITH ACT IN THE PAST, BY SENDING SURGICAL EXPEDITION TEAMS.

WE APPRECIATE THE NOBLE EFFORT AND THE LEADERSHIP OF THEIR NEW TEAM

WWW.ACTFORVISION.COM

Wonderful organization, completely changing people's lives for $25/person. I worked with their development organization and they were extremely helpful setting up a unique donation link.

Love Rise and all there employees. In Chambersburg PA

SEE has consistently provided supplies and loaned equipment for our cataract surgery campaigns in developing countries. We have performed five missions, saving our nonprofit organization thousands of dollars each time. We could not do these missions without SEE’s tremendous help.

I continue to be so impressed by the amazing volunteer doctors serving SEE’s impactful mission! They do amazing, life-changing work!

I can tell you first hand how wonderful I believe this organization is, the work they do outside of the country is beyond what words can express. Though, what they do domestically is what I can preach about, the way the team puts so much passion into what they believe in is incredible, what they do locally with going to every school in the district and giving the children vision tests and ensuring that everyone who needs glasses has a way to obtain them is immeasurable.

I have worked with SEE International for over 10 years. They are the most reliable, helpful, forward looking nonprofit. I have joined forces with them to Thailand, Myanmar, and Guatemala and more recently worked with them on a direct donation program sending continual support to a hospital in rural Guatemala. Thank you for all you do SEE Jnternational!

I have had the pleasure of working as a volunteer eye surgeon with SEE International for 25 years. Through SEE's generous and steadfast support, we have been able to help to establish an ongoing presence in Namibia, which has helped to restore vision to over 40,000 needy patients blinded by cataracts. SEE is a model of dedication, consistency, and efficiency. Through SEE's tireless efforts, local eye surgeons who are also dedicated to providing advanced eye care to the poor work side by side with SEE volunteers. SEE's generous support provides us with the logistical coordination and the steady flow of surgical supplies necessary to carry out our mission of correcting reversible blindness in southwest Africa. I feel blessed to have the opportunity to work as a partner with this remarkable non-profit organization.

FOCUS has worked with SEE International to source consumables and capital equipment for many years. Their services are very helpful to enable physicians and other non profits to reduce the burden of avoidable blindness.

I have worked with SEE International for over 20 years. I was one of the originators of their monthly donor program, and have known some of the people personally, including meeting the (now deceased) founder. SEE is an outstanding organization. Through their efforts, many thousands of blind people are able to see again, through lens replacement surgery and other forms of eye intervention. It is a real pleasure to work with this organization. My only regret is that I can't do more to help them in their incredibly important work. I highly recommend SEE to anyone looking for a nonprofit that really does a lot of good in the world in one the most important ways: eyesight - David J. Fladlien

Love SEEInt and their efforts! Would love to see them expand.

This is a GREAT organization who works with physicians and surgeons who help indigent people all over the world to have access to needed surgical and medical care! They are no respecter of a person's age, race, color, nationality or political persuasion. They just HELP people in need with the assistance of medical teams who donate all their time and physical costs to travel to needed areas to help those who need appropriate medical and surgical help. This is a GREAT nonprofit organization you can trust that your donations will go to those who really need help!

My Grandmother was legal blind so I have a soft spot for organizations that help people regain their sight. SEE International is completely transparent--they send me a receipt each month when I donate online. Their mission of bringing sight to people around the world at an incredibly tiny cost and literally saving lives in the process is one where I can truly get on board. This organization rates 5 stars for honesty, transparency, mission and focus.
I am picky about where I donate and I feel so incredibly good about SEE International.

SEE International is phenomenal in providing local and global vision care/surgeries for those who can't afford them and might otherwise go blind or have their vision severely diminished.

I was familiar with SEE International but recently got to know the organization a little better and learned just how incredible programs are and how many people's lives they improve every year. SEE is truly a godsend organization around the world as they give people the miracle of sight and as their tagline says, "Sight is Freedom!"

SEE has made such a positive impact on people's lives, to those they serve by restoring sight, to the professionals they give the chance to enrich their lives through their work. I have been involved with their work for 12 years, and can say I am a better person for it and am very grateful for it

This is such an incredible organization that works to prevent blindness by providing free eye care and sight-restoring surgeries around the world to those in need.

SEE international gives sight to those with correctable blindness for an average of only $25. It is had to think of a better way to help those in need. SEE is a great, enduring organization with substantial wide-reaching impact.

SEE international provides the greatest impact for your dollars donated as it enables a blind person to see; thus permanently changing ones life and the care givers supporting that person.

As a person that has struggled with eye issues, I have a unique and deep appreciation for the fine work SEE International does. I have been sighted, I have been blind. I am now blessed to be sighted again. I have the utmost respect for SEE as they give the gift of sight to so many all over the world, regardless of a persons ability to pay, and have done so for over 45 years.

Cannot say enough good things about SEE International and the work they do to restore sight around the world! As a donor and volunteer surgeon, I have worked with SEE Int'l for over 7 years and witnessed firsthand their dedication to vision care in the local and global community. The organization is extremely well-run and efficiently converts donor dollars into sight-saving surgeries. I look forward to supporting and working with SEE International for many years to come.

SEE International has done a tremendous job in helping to end blindness around the world. With a long history of providing cataract and other surgeries in both third world countries along with local communities, SEE has been able to positively impact thousands of families and individuals whose sight was restored. I donate to SEE because I believe in the mission that ending world blindness is a worthy goal. I highly recommend that everyone become involved in this mission by donating to this important cause.

I have been a donor and volunteer eye surgeon with SEE International for the last 10 years. SEE is an extraordinary organization that has restored sight to hundreds of thousands of people who would otherwise be blind. SEE inspires, trains, supports, and supplies eye surgeons in the developed world to treat needlessly blind people in less fortunate countries. SEE helps to train eye surgeons in the developing world to perform more advanced surgical techniques. It gives developed world companies the opportunity to donate supplies to help people who are needlessly blind in the developing world. It changes the lives of the eye surgeons from the developed and developing worlds, the blind, the volunteers, and eye surgery supply companies in extraordinary ways. To learn more about my involvement with SEE International, you can go to my Website and see this and other articles: https://www.drsondheimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Dr.-Sondheimer.pdf

Such an amazing organization doing good around the globe. Restoring sight to people is a gift that gives them back not only their vision but their independence. What SEE can do for so many and with such efficiency is truly incredible and awe-inspiring work.

SEE International has a 45 year track record of success. The organization has a talented staff dedicated to the mission of restoring sight to the blind.

I’m very familiar with See international and they are a wonderful organization. I’m very familiar with See international and they are a wonderful organization.

SEE is an exceptional organization that supports efforts to eradicate global blindness. They provide crucial logistical and material support, backed by donations and industry, to facilitate collaboration between US based surgeons and less developed health care systems globally. SEE also has an important training component, teaching surgeons affordable and sustainable techniques which are crucial in supporting efforts to eliminate cataract blindness. They are responsible for lifting an immense burden of blindness from the planet and continue to due so. Their leadership and organizational culture are commendable.

I am doing eye camps with SEE International since 1999 in different countries. With their help, I have been able to bring the sight back to many people that can turn into useful members of their families and communities again. In the areas of the world SEE International works, it has a huge impact in the lives of the needed people.

This outreach eye hospital charity provides the life-changing gift of sight to help to the poorest, neediest of people in rural Rajasthan. This area of the world has a very high incidence of eye disease both infections such as Trachoma and also cataracts. Without this outreach care from this charity, thousands of people, including children, would suffer blindness for the rest of their lives.
I have volunteered on two occasions for two weeks at a time to provide anaesthesia for the eye surgeons delivering this care. The outreach clinics take place during the day. Medical treatment is dispensed and the patients identified as requiring surgery are brought back by bus from the village outreach clinic late afternoon. Surgery takes place in the evening from 5pm until 12midnight. The bus will then take the patients back to their village the next day before collecting the patients identified in the following days clinic. This system not only provides the healthcare for all patients attending the outreach clinic but also provides the transport back to the hospital which these people can not afford. All this is possible thanks to the support of various charities together with the surgeons and nursing staff volunteering their time.

We have been working closely with SEE International since 1994 - that’s about 36 years !

The collaboration has been extremely fruitful in more ways than one. SEEI sends volunteer eye surgeons who visit our hospital and provide free eye surgery to the poorest of the poor. Some surgeons stay for extended periods of 6 - 8 weeks and lend a much needed helping hand in our work. So we accomplish a lot of surgical work which we would otherwise not be able to do alone on our own. This way, SEE International has a big impact in eliminating blindness amongst the aged and the indigent people of the Thar Desert region of India.

The agency also provides consumable items [like intra-ocular lenses] for the surgery which permits us to perform hundreds of world class free surgeries every year. So it’s not unusual that during the visit of a SEEI volunteer we can accomplish upto 600 free surgeries in a month’s duration with impeccable visual outcomes.

Another very significant impact that SEE International has had in our work is the sharing of knowledge with eye care professionals of our town and establishing new techniques. To give some examples: phacoemulsification was first demonstrated to us via live surgery by SEEI volunteer Dr Maskeen Sabharwal in 1994, Dr Thomas Tayeri established glaucoma shunt surgery at our hospital in 2014, and more recently in 2019 volunteer Dr Lauren Shatz showed us how to perform advanced DSEK surgery and also held a skills transfer workshop and wet lab, live surgery and CME lectures on the subject for all surgeons of our town to learn and perform.

Over the years our collaboration with SEEI has been extremely productive and has changed the lives of thousands of aged and indigent blind patients from that of helplessness and self-pity to that of joy, happiness and optimism by restoring their vision. SEEI has also had a tremendous impact on enhancing the skills of local ophthalmologists.

I first started donating to SEE perhaps over two decades ago, following a very compelling article I read on the organization in Forbes magazine. I've donated for many years, and have served on the Board of Directors for the last 5 years. We have a strong board with a very strong membership. The organization receives consistent praise for its' work and efficiency. I've had the privilege of working with two of the expeditions to Bolivia. The physicians, RN, and clinic staff all volunteer their time, and pay all of their expenses on these trips. What greater and more direct impact: someone is blink and returns the next day with vision.

Wonderful charity restoring sight all over the world.
As the eye surgeons donate their time and pay for their own travel, the majority of funds raised go towards eliminating blindness.

The dedication of all the volunteers is very uplifting. And every one of them is so appreciative of the staff of SEE International. Also, the management and staff of SEE has been exemplary in managing and fulfilling the world wide mission of the organization both before the pandemic and through the shutdown caused by the pandemic.

On the donor side, I have appreciated their communication and reporting of activities. All of those reports are honest and uplifting.

My son introduced me to SEE International soon after he started working for them and I have been a supporter since. I remembered how cataract surgery changed my mother's life and to know that there were doctors providing the same life-changing procedure to others worldwide was heart-warming and inspiring. I was also surprised to find out that beyond its worldwide mission, See International provided its services in our community. I teach ESL at the Wake Center and every semester I distribute flyers to my students to let them know of their services. I take my hat off to all who work for this wonderful organization and especially to the doctors who volunteer their time and services around the world.

SEE International is changing people’s lives by restoring a precious sense - sight! All over the world, the work that SEE does is giving people their lives back by performing the necessary surgeries that restores their vision. Being able to see again means they can contribute to their families, go back to school, earn a living and just be able to be whole again. As an active board member for the past several years, I have watched SEE grow significantly in its abilities to help multiple thousands of people annually regain their sight. No other mission is more rewarding than that! I am proud to be a part of something that does so much to help people’s lives all over the world....

I have served on the Board for SEE International since 2011. Since that time the organization has performed thousands of cataract surgeries across the globe helping not only those patients, but more importantly their entire families. The aspect of SEE International many people don't realize is the work they locally here in the United States. They provide all eyecare services from routine eye exams all the way to complicated eye surgeries. I am proud to be part of this organization.

I go to work every day knowing that the decisions that are made by the SEE team create a huge impact in many lives around the world. We help change the lives of not only the patient, but also those closest to them. To be part of that is priceless.

When I look at non-profits to support, I look for several things:
1. How long have they been around, and are they sustainable? I want to make sure that my support goes to a non profit that will be around for years. SEE International has been around for over 40 years. I believe that history, and their current outreach tells me that they will be around for many more years.
2. Are they effective? Bang for the buck, I believe that restoring vision is the best investment. It not only gives freedom to the blind person, it also gives freedom to the caretaker.
3. Are they helping people locally as well as internationally? SEE Internationally does both.
4. Are they helping to educate? SEE International trains doctors around the world, as well as educating patients.

I have been a long time fan of the work that SEE International does, and I have introduced them to many of my friends and family. I highly encourage anyone interested in the organization to get involved and be a part of restoring vision to needy people!

SEE is an excellent organization that is transforming lives all around the world. I can't imagine living without my sight, but I'm one of the fortunate ones who can get treatment if I need it. What SEE does in bringing this sight-restoring care to people in need is beyond inspiring. I am proud to support that work.

Few charitable organizations provide such a gratifying and quantifiable return on your donation. Donating to SEE International is just smart giving, plain and simple. Blindness is most prevalent in developing countries and-- it likely goes without saying-- causes and contributes to lack of opportunity, and poverty. SEE International performs thousands of eye surgeries every year in developing countries around the world. Because of all their great partnerships, and awesome volunteer surgeons, the cost per surgery ends up being less than $100. Knowing that even a modest contribution could mean someone, somewhere, will see again? -- Not to be cliché but, let's face it, that's priceless.

SEE International is an amazing organization. Not only have they helped cure blindness for over a half million people, but have done so for only $100 per surgery. The physicians take time from their lucrative practices and pay for their own travel expenses. SEE provides supplies and support to make this mission possible. Being blind in a developing country is not only a handicap, it prevents people from providing for themselves and can ultimately shorten their lifespans. SEE International not only brings the gift of sight, but ultimately the gift of life to thousands worldwide. Their overhead is very low, so most of my donation goes directly to help those in need. Truly a great non profit!

I have been volunteering at SEE for the past two years, and while I can not comment on how this organization operated in the past, I can say that it is currently a model professional environment staffed by competent and compassionate individuals. It is easy to see how this organization is highly thought of in the local community and by its donors - there is a genuine warmth that is undeniable and inspiring. One does not often find efficiency and compassion in the same organization, but SEE proves the welcome exception to that generality.

Cataract is the leading cause of blindness in our world. Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE) International Inc. is among leading organizations addressing this global epidemic. Their unique model in involving local Surgeons, volunteer Surgeons, volunteers, and industry donors allows a collaborative effort to solve the crisis. I work in the Ophthalmic surgical industry and am thrilled to see their wide-reaching clinics and global efforts gaining more traction. Their new leadership is very promising and I look forward to continuing to support them.

I have been a four figure donor for at least five years. I have watched the organization take a giant leap forward just in the past 18 months with new, excellent, and very warm and engaging leadership and a much more sophisticated board of directors stepping on. It's exciting to see and I know that the remarkable work that they do will not only continue so positively (as it always has) but will expand with vigor now. This organization is going to capture our interest and be like hanging on to a tiger's tail! I couldn't recommend them more to other donors. They have always been extremely cost efficient and remarkably diligent about their work in the world. This is a winning ticket!

As an experienced donor I appreciate the level of financial detail and accountability SEE International was able to provide. I feel every dollar I donated to Surgical Eye Expeditions resulted in a positive impact for those in need. Thank you for providing sight to those in need and vision for us all.

I’ve enjoyed helping raise funds for SEE International for the last 5 years and will continue to do so. For just over $100 they restore sight to people who may have never had the opportunity to see again. This not only provides the patient the gift of sight but also allows 2-3 other family members/caretakers to enjoy their lives.

So, for a little over $100, 3-4 people’s lives are changed forever!

I’m excited to hear about the new management team and look forward to their continued growth.

Keep up the good work SEE International!

I am familiar with SEE International's local Santa Barbara Vision Care Program. It's truly a fantastic program that addresses a real need in the community. They help uninsured community members receive free eye exams, eyeglasses, and even eye surgery. And then in addition to this, they work internationally in developing countries facilitating surgeries! Really amazing stuff. Great work, SEE!

SEE International stands apart from other nonprofits that I have worked with, including those that have greater budgets and name recognition. I felt compelled to share my viewpoint, because I know that SEE has recently undergone very positive and intentional changes to put the organization back on track. The staff are truly dedicated, capable and aware of their responsibility to the surgeons and people on the ground.

I used to donate every Dec to SEE. I stopped three years ago and can't get my name off their lists, even though I called twice.

SEE International is a perfect model of how NOT to run a nonprofit. The management is truly terrible. There are many other organizations much more capable of addressing cataract blindness. The staff turnover is breathtakingly fast. And for good reason.

SEE used to be a wonderful organization but with time the Founder has squandered the funds so carefully raised during its heyday in the 90s. Multiple employee lawsuits and inquiries by the attorney general contributed to its demise

I am a donor to this wonderful 35-yr old organization and, with a history of many eye surgeries myself, I can share in the amazement at seeing again that they have given to so many of the world's most deserving. It's one of the most important organizations I have the honor of supporting. The physicians who travel at their own expense, volunteer their time and dedicate their skills to making this important difference in the lives of more than 10,000 people a year, much less the dedicated staff to put it all together, make this organization's work a joy to support.