ZEISS Supports World Sight Day 2025

The campaign "See you in class" from ZEISS Vision Care Italy aims to reaffirm the commitment to prevention and visual health education among new generations, focusing on building a future where visual well-being is truly within everyone's reach.

Community Eye Clinic
Joint project by ZEISS, Dentists on Wheels and the Cione Ruta de la Luz Foundation: The first community eye clinic was opened in Missirah. The ambitious project represents a significant milestone for the visual health of this large, needy population suffering from severe vision problems. 

Congenital Cataract
Together with its partner, Optik Tunggal, ZEISS is committed to donate 2025 pairs of spectacles for children with congenital cataract in Indonesia. Optik Tunggal and ZEISS share a common concern for children’s visual impairment and have consistently provided vision care help for the underprivileged.

Rare eye conditions in newborn babies
The ZEISS CLARUS 700 empowers the atlas of retinopathy of prematurity and other neonatal diseases, providing unparalleled insights into rare eye conditions in newborns to safeguard infants' vision and prevent vision loss.
 

Cataract Treatment Support

ZEISS participated in Brazil’s 55th Expedition of the Expedicionários da Saúde, serving the Indigenous Community of Assunção do Içana, Alto Rio Negro, by donating intraocular lenses for surgeries as well as loaning advanced diagnostic and therapeutic laser equipment, treating more than 120 eyes with ZEISS IOLs and contributing to 550 surgeries performed.

ZEISS works to limit the impact of myopia

In recent years, the number of myopia diagnosis has been risen in Asian countries. In some urban regions in China, for example, nine out of ten people are affected by myopia before the age of twenty. Because of the spike, myopia has been classified as a pandemic in China. However, it is not only in China that the number of myopic people is increasing. This trend can be observed all over the world. 

ZEISS Charity Initiative for Kids and the Public: Empowering People for a Brighter Future

In its 11th consecutive year, ZEISS Vision Care China has carried out its child welfare program. It partnered with 13 clients to visit 14 rural schools, providing free vision screenings for over 6,000 students and donating over 1,400 pairs of eyeglasses. Additionally, it launched large-scale public eye health education campaigns in 7 key cities across China, generating over 600 million online and offline impressions to create sustainable social value. It also co-hosted an eye care science live stream with the China Optometric and Optical Association ahead of National Eye Care Day, reaching 2.3 million impressions.

Restoring sight for a 5-year-old cataract patient
Five-year-old Buyandeleger was born with a cataract in her right eye. The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital team stepped in to help give Buyandeleger her full sight.

Changing the way the world sees
ZEISS supports Orbis, an international nonprofit, with headquarters in New York, that builds strong and sustainable eye care systems globally, putting treatment and prevention within reach so everyone can access the eye care they need to thrive.
 

Seeing past the floods in Texas

ZEISS Vision Care donated eyeglass lenses to the victims of the Texas floods, working in partnership with local eye care professionals to help those in Texas who may have lost their eyewear and needed a quick solution to sustain their eyesight.

Disaster relief for Los Angeles

ZEISS Vision Care donated $100,000 to the American Red Cross to support disaster relief after the devastating fires in Los Angeles, helping ZEISS employees and the local community in rebuilding what was lost or damaged.

Enabling life-long eye health
Diagnostic devices from ZEISS help the Fiat Lux Foundation to enable life-long eye health for patients old and young in Mozambique.
 

The ZEISS EyeCare Network reimagines access to eye care. Early detection of eye diseases can prevent serious consequences. This initiative aims to enhance eye health and improve patients' long-term quality of life.

IOFF Fellowship
Good medical training forms the basis of good health care. Since 2020, Carl Zeiss Meditec Group supports the International Ophthalmological Fellowship Foundation e.V. (IOFF). During placements lasting several months at hospitals with state-of-the-art equipment, doctors can improve their skills in ophthalmology and later harness the knowledge gained for their work in their native countries.

70 cataract surgeries for 70 years

ZEISS was proud to support Dr. Fidel Diaz de Leon in Mexico, by donating intraocular lenses and surgical equipment for his mission to provide free cataract surgeries for 70 people on his 70th birthday.

Support for annual free eye screenings 

ZEISS supports the Lions Club International in France with diagnostic equipment and screening consultation, allowing patients who don’t have the resources to see an ophthalmologist to be screened and referred to a surgeon if needed.