Vision for a Nation Foundation (VFAN) is an international non-governmental organisation that supports health ministries to provide local eye care services.
[1] In its first nationwide initiative, it is providing everyone in Rwanda with local access to eye care and affordable glasses.
[2] The Foundation was established in 2011 by James Chen, a Hong Kong–based venture philanthropist who is also the founder of international eye-care initiative Clearly.
[6] In 2015, VFAN launched an outreach campaign to bring eye care services to people across Rwanda.
Teams of trained nurses will visit each of Rwanda’s 15,000 villages to provide eye treatment and affordable glasses.