Sight and Life

Since the early years, when Sight and Life was set up as a task force in the mid-1980s to combat blindness and child deaths caused by Vitamin A deficiency during the Ethiopian famine, it has repeatedly reinvented itself to remain impactful. The task force’s work was soon seen to have a relevance far beyond that particular disaster, and it continued as an expanded initiative first under the umbrella of Hoffmann-La Roche, and then of DSM. DSM is a very generous donor and gave us new opportunities to grow, but Sight and Life’s status today as an independent foundation allows it to interact with a much wider range of potential allies and collaborators.

We take pride in being a responsive and adaptable organization. Sight and Life was founded on the basis of a deep scientific understanding of the importance of micronutrients and has always had a clear strategic vision. That vision has evolved over the course of the years to recognize important developments such as our contemporary understanding of sustainable social business solutions for malnutrition in LMICs and local solutions for local problems in rectifying the issues of global food systems.