The Mission & Purpose of the Tej Kohli Foundation

Tej Kohli is on a mission to rebuild people and communities around the world and to eradicate poverty-driven corneal blindness by 2035. In this video Tej Kohli and Wendy Kohli talk about the mission and purpose of the Tej Kohli Foundation now that it is attempting to solve some major human challenges as a global hub for technological and scientific innovations. In this video Tej Kohli and Wendy Kohli talk about the mission and purpose of the Tej Kohli Foundation.

Under the stewardship of Tej Kohli and Wendy Kohli since its inauguration in 2005, the Tej Kohli Foundation embarked upon its biggest project to date in 2015 when it launched the Tej Kohli Cornea Institute. By 2019 the Tej Kohli Cornea Institute had welcomed more than 200,000 outpatients seeking advice and treatment for corneal blindness and visual impairment. But as Tej Kohli has sought to progress in his mission to combat poverty driven corneal blindness, the Tej Kohli Foundation has now started to shift its focus away from immediate direct surgical interventions and toward the development of accessible and affordable solutions that can be easily scaled to the masses worldwide.

As part of the Tej Kohli mission to develop and affordable and scalable solution to corneal blindness, in 2019 Tej Kohli announced that the Tej Kohli Foundation had made a donation of $2m to Harvard Medical School researchers at the Massachusetts Eye And Ear Hospital in Boston. In 2020 Tej Kohli also announced that the Tej Kohli Foundation had made progress in developing an affordable treatment that was based on the regeneration of corneal tissue.

The Tej Kohli Foundation is built around ‘Rebuilding You’ and seeks to rebuild people and communities around the world using new science and technologies using precepts drawn from the direct experiences of Tej Kohli. Drawing from ‘Rebuilding You’ and using technology to make direct interventions that improve lives, in 2019 Tej Kohli launched the ‘Future Bionics’ program in the UK to fund the provision of 3D-printed bionic arms for disabled young people.

Tej Kohli regularly shares wisdom, insight and thoughts about key issues from the world of philanthropy and social impact investment on his Medium blog. He also shares his thoughts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram using the tag #TejTalks. In 2020 Tej Kohli released ‘Rebuilding You: The Philanthropy Handbook’ as guide for wealth creators who are seeking to help other people by rebuilding people and communities around the world.