The CHOKH Story

CHOKH is a charitable, not-for-profit organization based in Bangladesh.  Established in 2017, CHOKH works with the motto of helping disadvantaged blind people, particularly the corneal blind. One of the major goals of the organization is to improve and restore sight of most disadvantaged children living in the remote areas of Bangladesh. Alongside, CHOKH has been trying to harness effective communication between all eye banks and hospitals in the country and the government to strengthen eye banking in Bangladesh.

Other work areas:

  • Importing tissue from abroad
  • Creating awareness among people on tissue donation
  • Build an operational tissue recode system
  • Develop patient information system
  • Situation analysis on corneal blind people in Bangladesh
  • Research around improving corneal blindness in Bangladesh and similar low resource countries
  • Working in remote areas with marginalized population