LRBT is committed to creating a better Pakistan by preventing the suffering caused by blindness and other eye ailments. To this end it will provide state of the art comprehensive free eye-care in keeping with its tradition of excellence, efficiency and compassion for all. In the spirit of giving, LRBT welcomes you to contribute to our mission of restoring vision and changing lives. Your Zakat donations play a pivotal role in ensuring that quality eye care reaches those in need. Explore the ease of Zakat online donations and discover how your Zakat fitrah online can make a meaningful impact.
In December 1985, the late Graham Layton and Zaka Rahmatulla’ who were retiring from their very successful business careers, decided to establish the Layton Rahmatulla Benevolent Trust with Rs. 1 million.
They decided to concentrate in the area of control of Blindness partly because Zaka had lost sight in one eye & he understood the trials of the blind & partly because of a study done a few years earlier which showed that the prevalence of blindness was 1.8 % of the population.
The money was used to build and run a mobile eye-hospital in Tando Bago a small town 250 kilometres east of Karachi. They envisioned an organization which would grow to provide free eye treatment to the poor & underprivileged citizens across the length & breadth of Pakistan so that no Pakistani would go blind just because they could not afford the treatment.
Since its inception over 38 years ago LRBT, through its 19 hospitals and 54 Clinics, has treated over 55 million patients and performed over 5.2 million major and minor eye surgeries.
They also left behind 4 founding principles which we call “The Spirit of LRBT” which guide our activities and permeates everything that we do.