More than 20 babies are born each day into certain blindness. Some will never know their mother's smile, while others grow up with the knowledge that they will lose sight before the end of their teens.

Thousands of children are born with uncorrectable vision disorders that severely impair their vision and have a devastating impact on their quality of life and ability to function 'normally' in society. The technological tools exist to attack the hereditary and environmental causes of the diseases behind these sad statistics, yet they are too expensive to apply commercially to this unheard minority.