Mission Cataract USA offers free cataract surgery to people of all ages who have no means to pay. Thanks to the dream of one eye surgeon in Fresno, California, one day a year on Mission Cataract Day, hundreds of people throughout the U.S. are given the gift of sight at no cost to them or to Medicare, Medicaid or private insurance.

Mission Cataract: Another name for caring. The goal of Mission Cataract USA is to eradicate blindness due to cataracts in our country and bring as many people as possible from blindness to useful productive lives. We hope to have Mission Cataract surgeons in all 50 states so that no one in the United States will go without needed cataract surgery due to finances We want to make sure every vision impaired person in America without insurance or financial resources learns about this remarkable program.