NIGERIA
Restoring sight where access is hardest.
In Nigeria, R4HSF works through trusted local eye-care partners to bring screening, corrective lenses, cataract surgery and follow-up closer to underserved communities.
WHY NIGERIA
The need is large. Access remains uneven.
Preventable and treatable vision loss can affect a person’s ability to learn, work, care for family and remain independent. For people living far from affordable specialist care, even a straightforward eye examination or cataract operation can be out of reach.
- 24 million people living with vision loss.
- 1.3 million people who were blind, within that total.
- 50 million more people with non-vision-impairing eye conditions needing basic eye care.
Nigeria estimates for 2020. Source: National Eye Care Coordinator, Federal Ministry of Health, published by IAPB in 2023.
R4HSF’s Nigeria model is designed around that access gap: find people where they live, connect them to qualified local providers, fund the care they cannot otherwise afford, and measure what happens afterward.
HOW CARE REACHES PEOPLE
Care begins closer to home.
Outreach
Partners bring screening into communities and schools so care begins closer to where people live and learn.
Screen & diagnose
Local eye-care teams identify refractive error, cataract and other conditions requiring treatment or referral.
Treat
Patients receive glasses, medicines, referral or subsidized surgery according to clinical need.
Follow up
Partners increasingly track recovery and postoperative visual outcomes, not just completed procedures.
RECENT VERIFIED IMPACT
Recent results in Nigeria.
Vision screenings
Cataract surgeries
Corrective lenses
Reported postoperative visual acuity
Reporting note: Latest validated 12-month period: July 2025–July 2026. Postoperative visual-acuity reporting began in November 2025; 383 surgeries were represented in reporting through June 2026, with June reporting reaching 6/9.
LOCAL PARTNERS. A SHARED STANDARD OF CARE.
Nigeria is where R4HSF’s delivery model is deepest.
Eye Foundation Community Hospital
Community outreach, clinical screening, cataract surgery, corrective lenses and referral delivered through an established Nigerian eye-care network.
St. Mary’s Catholic Eye Hospital
A growing cataract-surgery and outreach partner in Ago-Iwoye, with capacity to expand significantly as patient access, consumables and funding grow.
Vision for Success: our school program
R4HSF’s school eye-health program brings screening and refractive care closer to children. At Ekundayo Community School in July 2026, 102 children were screened and 35 were identified with refractive error.
SIGHT RESTORED. POSSIBILITY RETURNED.
Six years of vision loss. A future reopened.
At 40, Oluwatosin had lived with cataract-related vision loss in her left eye for six years. It forced her to abandon teacher training and made it harder to build a livelihood. After she was identified through community outreach, R4HSF supported cataract surgery. Restored sight gave her renewed confidence and the freedom to move forward.
WHAT COMES NEXT
Scale the reach without weakening the standard.
The next phase in Nigeria is not simply more activity. It is more reliable access: stronger outreach pipelines, more cataract capacity, expanded school eye care, better follow-up and more consistent outcome reporting across partners.
That is how R4HSF can grow while keeping the focus on what matters most: whether people actually see better afterward.
MAKE THE NEXT OUTCOME POSSIBLE
Help make the next restored sight possible.
Your support helps local partners bring screening, glasses, surgery and follow-up to people who might otherwise go without care.
