'Small Change for Big Change’ is our innovative fundraising partnership with London restaurants Roka, Zuma, Coya and LPM. A voluntary donation of £1 is added to every bill and 100% goes directly towards our project partners. For twenty years, these funds were directed to eliminating cataract blindness in rural India and Nigeria. Together we've raised over £2 million and funded over 50,000 life transforming cataract surgeries through this initiative.
WATCH THE FILMSMALL CHANGE:
There’s no VAT and all administrative costs are covered to ensure 100% of the donation is sent directly to our project partners.
BIG CHANGE:
A mother with her sight restored no longer needs to rely on her children to get by; they can return to school and she can go back to work, securing a better future for her family. Restoring sight restores livelihoods – it strengthens whole communities. Nobody should have to live or die blind due to cataract.
We chose to work in rural areas with a high incidence of blindness and limited access to eye care. 19 million people worldwide are blind from cataract yet cataracts are easily treatable with surgery. It’s a simple procedure performed by a surgeon which takes less than 30 minutes and restores a person’s sight. A cataract operation is one of the most cost effective anti-poverty actions. Our goal is simple; to work with eye hospitals to eliminate curable blindness by ensuring people have access to high quality eye surgery and ophthalmic care.
We have been supporting the Savitri Trust at Zuma since we opened in 2002. It has been an honour and a pleasure for us all to be involved.
Rainer Becker, CEO & Founder, Zuma