Objectives: To determine the perception/knowledge of community towards eye donation and determine the willingness of community about eye donations

Methods: A cross sectional survey. Stratified simple random cluster sampling technique was used with a sample size of 400 at UC#22 Islamabad. Study duration was 6 months. A pretested, structured, piloted questionnaire was used and data was entered and analyzed in SPSS version 22.0

Results: Total 400 participants  were included in the study, 309(77.2%) males and 91(22.8%) females. From all, 281(70.2%) participants knew about eye donations, 136(34%) participants knew that cornea is transplanted into the receiver’s eye. Only 42(10.5%) persons knew about eye banks in Pakistan and 171(42.8%) participants were willing to donate their eyes.

Conclusion: Although the knowledge about awareness is good in this population but further knowledge about eye donation is not good. Awareness programmers should be done to give knowledge to the population especially illiterate persons to make the dream of awareness into willingness to donate corneas, comes true.

Key Words: Eye donation, corneal transplant, willingness, Awareness