Umeed Hospital under the banner of Al-Ain International Trust is seeking to play its role to help the global initiative for the elimination of avoidable blindness. Four-Fifths of the magnitude of blindness is caused by an eye condition which can be prevented or treated. The resources available are insufficient to tackle the problem particularly in low-income countries like Pakistan where 9 out of 10 of the worlds blind people live in. There is a lack of trained eye personnel, medicines, ophthalmic equipment, eye care facilities and patient referral systems. This is preventing the individuals with vision loss from realising their full potential. We started the organisation with some broad long-term aims which span over several years. We focused on developing a facility in the shape of the Hope Hospital in a remote village of Pakistan. We have successfully achieved this target with a functioning eye care facility at the Hope Hospital with trained personnel, distributing eye medicines, equipped with high-quality ophthalmic equipment, catering for both primary and secondary eye care facilities and a mechanism to refer low-income patients to tertiary facilities.