Our history
United by Vision, Guided by the Heart!!!
Who we are
Kantutani Foundation is the social arm of the Kantutani Business Group, legally established and non-profit, which aims to promote and address the visual health of children, people with disabilities, and low-income elderly individuals living in marginalized communities and provinces in vulnerable situations in Bolivia.
The Kantutani Foundation has managed to benefit many Bolivian families by conducting more than 200,000 optometric studies and donating 186,811 glasses.
What we do
Lines of Action
To reach seniors over 55 years old, persons with disabilities between 6 to 54 years old, and children between 6 to 12 years old who need to use glasses after a review through customized lenses made to measure.
Intervention Model
The intervention model is primary prevention, aiming to prevent avoidable blindness in people who are gradually losing visual acuity.
The foundation
Our history
The Kantutani Foundation was born from the heart and sensitivity of its president, who, after watching a documentary about Tibet, recognized in those images the same reality faced by many Bolivian communities: difficult roads, forgotten places, and people without access to visual health services. Moved by that connection, he decided to create a non-profit foundation that could bring light and hope to those in greatest need. Since then, the Kantutani Foundation has changed the lives of thousands of people, providing specialized care, custom-made glasses, and eye surgeries, creating opportunities and new ways of seeing life where there was once only darkness.
Our mission
Promote initiatives for cooperation, promotion, and development of alternative programs aimed at improving the quality of life and social integration through the formulation and implementation of projects in visual health, education, culture, sports, housing, community management, and environmental conservation or management for the benefit of the community.
Our vision
To be a leading organization for development and support of the community that works for the progress of the most needy.
Kantutani Foundation
Kantutani Foundation is a private non-profit organization according to IRS code 501(c)(3).
Every year, Kantutani Foundation serves 10,000 people including the elderly, children, and people with disabilities, conducting vision assessments, providing them with custom glasses, and also performing non-cost cataract surgeries for people in rural areas.
2023: "Winners of the Maya Award", the highest public honor in Bolivia since 1996, recognized for their contribution to visual health in Bolivia.
Our Values
We are an entity inspired by an unwavering commitment to social justice and human dignity.
° Respect
° Transparency
° Commitment
° Equity
° Solidarity
° Empathy
Memories
The 2023 management through the La Paz regional identified over 6700 older adults over 55 years, who suffered various ametropias (myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism), with high optical graduations. Likewise, most patients had presbyopia.
Annual
USA
- 106 Putman St unit 1 east Boston, MA 01228
La Paz
- 2314545
- gsalinas@kantutani.com
- Calle Capitán Ravelo Nº 2441 Planta baja, Edificio Alicante
Cochabamba
- 4400004
- gsalinas@kantutani.com
- Avenida Juan de la Rosa, Condominio Juan de la Rosa N° 1108 Local 1
Santa Cruz
- 2646363
- gsalinas@kantutani.com
- Avenida Charcas 2do. Anillo Torre Geranios N° 1066
- 2025 Fundación Kantutani