COMPETITORS

Care India

Care India is a non-profit organization working in India for over 65 years, focusing on alleviating poverty and social injustice. Care India does this through projects in health, education, livelihoods and disaster preparedness and response. Care India also focuses on generating and sharing knowledge with diverse stakeholders to influence sustainable impact at scale. Their overall goal is the empowerment of women and girls from poor and marginalised communities, leading to improvement in their lives and livelihoods. Care India has made a considerable shift in its programming approach over the years, from direct service provision to enabling poor and vulnerable groups. Unlike Jiti Foundation, who mainly focuses on women empowerment and eye medication, Care put most of its effort on healthcare quality, education inclusiveness and gender equality in general.

 

SEVA Gifts of Sight

As a direct competitor to JITI Foundation, SEVA focuses on build capacity, surgery, glasses and medical treatment. It partners with local hospitals and institutions to improve infrastructure and increase the volume and quality of eye care services and connects people in remote communities with the medicine and treatment they need can prevent blindness before it happens. SEVA’s priorities include gender equity, training, sustainability, universal access, care for children. Seva and its partners help women and girls overcome  blindness and visual impairment. It supports a variety of strategic training initiatives to develop local providers and increase knowledge in low-income countries,with the ultimate goal of making each program financially self-sufficient without the need to rely on donations or foreign support for their everyday work. Although SEVA also focuses on gender equality in helping women and children getting access to eye care services, it trains mostly volunteers to to develop local providers worldwide, instead of training specifically women to become the ophthalmologist and empower women’s right in India.

 

HelpMeSee

As an indirect competitor to the Jiti Foundation, HelpMeSee focuses on the three principles of sustainability, scale, and integration. HelpMeSee’s mission is to end cataract blindness, the leading cause of blindness worldwide, through partnerships with hundreds of surgeons in nearly a dozen countries, along with cutting-edge technology and training, to build a sustainable solution to the health crisis. HelpMeSee places an emphasis on training and empowering local partners to combat cataracts because they see increasing the number of local specialists as the key to eradicating cataracts. Additionally, the organization has adopted technology-driven solutions to address all dimensions of the global health crisis. HelpMeSee focuses its training efforts on opthamologists in India (and other countries it serves) to provide sustainable care. The Jiti Foundation’s biggest difference from HelpMeSee is that it trains unspecialized women who would otherwise not have jobs in medicine. While the Jiti Foundation does use its platform to combat preventable blindness, it differs from HelpMeSee in that it uses eye care as a conduit to promote women’s empowerment.