SUPPORT THE GIFT OF SIGHT CAMPAIGN

Drs Sanduk Ruit and Geoff Tabin are Genius 100 visionaries and co-founders of the Himalayan Cataract Project. Their mission is to restore eyesight to people who are unnecessarily blind.

Campaign Description
The Gift of Sight Campaign is intended to raise $3 Million USD to continue to provide education and services to visually impaired persons – as well as strengthen and grow eye care systems (education and training) in low resource settings around the globe. To date, HCP, working with its local implementing partners has:

● served more than 1.6 million people annually through examinations and basic treatment, including the provision each year of over 123,000 sight-restoring surgeries and hundreds of training opportunities for eye care personnel.
● has performed over one million sight-restoring surgeries, screened, and provided basic treatment for over 12 million people, trained 18,000 eye care professionals from 43 countries.

The goal of this campaign is to raise the funds necessary to make possible what seemed impossible for people in need.

Impact Goal:
• 24,000 sight restoring surgeries over 3 years

Fundraising Goal
The fundraising goal is $3 Million USD

Impact Region:
South Asia + Sub-Saharan Africa

How YOU can help:

Pledge to support one or more life-changing eye surgeries. Please note, your support will also cover the material costs of the surgery, the medical staff as well as meals for patients and staff.

Option 1: $150 USD for ONE eye surgery
Option 2: $750 USD for FIVE eye surgeries
Option 3: $1500 USD for TEN eye surgeries
Option 4: $15000 USD for a FULL DAY of surgeries that will restore eye-sight to 100 PEOPLE

Make your impact. Click HERE to GIVE THE GIFT OF SIGHT

SUPPORT THE EQUAL TO EDUCATION CAMPAIGN

In 2020, the world and our G100 community lost two prolific leaders; Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sir Ken Robinson who inspired generations – through education and example – they made what seemed the impossible; possible. To honour these Visionaries, we are establishing a scholarship fund.

Our first G100 Inspiritus Campaign will support the extraordinary work of another member of our G100 Visionary community, Sima Samar.

She is a doctor for the poor, an educator of the marginalized, and a defender of the human rights of all in Afghanistan. She has established and nurtured the Shuhada Organization that has operated more than one hundred schools and 15 clinics and hospitals dedicated to providing education and healthcare, particularly focusing on women and girls. She served in the Interim Administration of Afghanistan and established the first-ever Ministry of Women’s Affairs. Since 2002, she has chaired the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission that promotes and protects human rights and holds human rights violators accountable, a commitment that has put her own life at great risk.

The G100 Foundation is developing a grassroots global campaign to support Sima Samar and the Shuhada Organization so they can continue to educate women in Afghanistan and the Afghan refugee community in Pakistan.

Our scholarship fund will enable 165 women to attend Gowharshad University with a full scholarship and become empowered through knowledge. It will also make possible what seemed impossible due to their environmental and economic circumstances.

Impact Region:
Afghanistan and Afghan refugee community in Pakistan

Fundraising Goal: $2,000,000 USD

Impact Opportunity:
• To provide funding for higher education for females where access to education is not encouraged, accessible, or economically feasible.
• Aide in creating systemic and long-term change for girls and women by:
• Enabling a sense of purpose and instilling an opportunity to be an agent of positive change in Afghanistan and be an example to the whole world
• Developing sustainable career opportunities which empower economic freedom and promote the role of women in society.

How YOU can help:

Option #1 $500 USD (tuition only for one full year)
Option #2 $1800 USD (tuition and living expenses for one full year)
Option #3 $7200 USD (full four year scholarship including *living expenses)

*expenses include: Books, Room/Board, Food, Transportation

SUPPORT THE EQUAL TO EDUCATION CAMPAIGN

The G100 Blue Ocean initiative is supported by Cascadia Seaweed in British Columbia, Canada.

Cascadia Seaweed is the largest North American provider of ocean cultivated seaweed — a regenerative crop with a variety of uses requiring only the sea and sunlight to grow. By partnering with Indigenous communities to cultivate seaweed in the ocean, they help solve some of the biggest challenges humanity faces today; climate change, economic instability, and food security.


Bill Collins, Chairman of Cascadia Seaweed

UPCOMING PROJECT SUPPORTING THE G100 BLUE OCEAN INITIATIVE

Date: May – July 2022 (Weather dependent)

Geography: From California to Oahu, Hawaii

Overview: To be the first person to wing-foil across any ocean in the world, solo and unsupported. Starting on the West Coast of California, Half Moon Bay, across the Pacific to Oahu, Hawaii.

The journey is 2750 Miles, taking an estimated 45-50 days, via wing and paddle a minimum of 8-12 hours per day, covering between 40- 60miles/over 60- 90km per day. Chris will be tracked by a GPS daily during the entire crossing. GPS tracking will be used for safety and new media engagement. The public will be able to follow and track his progress daily, across all the media platforms via satellite, web tracking, geotag links, and daily/ weekly updates to social media.

GPS tracking will be updated via a live log /blog of the days’ experiences, including:
• distance covered real-time weather, ocean conditions, challenges, hardships, creatures seen and the ocean pollution he sees along his journey.
• This creates a REAL-TIME adventure for everyone to follow and engage with, with numerous competitions built into the entire project, predicting Chris’s progress, throughout the journey.

Chris’s last Stand-Up Paddle Journey attracted hundreds of thousands of followers via his tracker and his riveting weekly Captain’s log updates he posted throughout his entire journey.

Purpose:
• Use Sport to inspire positive change!
• To raise money and awareness for Conservation, Education, Sustainability and to inspire positive change in everyone who follows this incredible journey!

Impact Region: North America / Europe / South Africa – This project will be broadcast globally, but major partners and supporters are in this region.

Impact:
• Sponsoring Scholarships and Ocean Outreach Programs for disadvantaged kids through the Two Oceans Aquarium Education Foundation.
• Shining a light on Ocean Unite’s 30×30 strategy to protect 30% of the planet’s water resources by 2030.
• Sponsoring money towards ocean protection and marine conservation through Sea Shepherd.
• Sponsoring money towards global Conservation Projects through Conservation International.
• Sponsoring the planting of mangrove trees through Heyerdahl Climate Change Park.
• Building ocean classroom sessions and educational videos, broadcast to thousands of children globally.

How YOU can help:

Pledge a mile!

SUPPORT THE G100 BLUE OCEAN CAMPAIGN