Professor Dennis Lam Shun-chiu is a strong advocate for prevention of blindness and has been fully committed to serving and helping patients to see again. He joined the Government Ophthalmic Service in 1986 and started his 10-year long volunteer services for the Hong Kong Sports Association for the Physically Disabled to assist the development of sport activities for blind people rehabilitation.

In 1991, Professor Lam became the founding honorary director of the Kung Wah Lee Eye Tissue Laboratory, the first “Active” Eye Bank in Hong Kong. Through actively persuading relatives of the recently deceased for eye donation, the donation rate had improved dramatically from one to two donors per year in the 80s to 100 to 200 in the 90s. He further established the first active eye bank in Shantou in 2004.

In 1999, he founded the Action for Vision Eye Foundation to raise public awareness in eye care and provide free community eye screening and surgery for the underprivileged in Hong Kong.

China has more than nine million blind people. The poor have been deprived of the opportunity to see again because they cannot afford the surgery. He founded the Project Vision Charitable Foundation in 2006 that aims at establishing 100 charity eye centers in poverty-stricken areas of China. Through training up the local medical team, quality and affordable services become sustainable and can be continued forever. The first two charity eye centers, one in Inner Mongolia and one in Shaanxi, have already been set up and running.