Graham Layton was honoured in 1990 for his tireless work for the underprivileged in Pakistan, with the Sitara-e-Quaid-e-Azam (Star of Pakistan): and also in the UK, where he was advanced CBE in the 1994 New Year’s Honours.
Rotary Club Karachi Cosmopolitan (Distt 3270) recognized Graham Layton (Founder Chairman LRBT) on 15th February 1992 for his services to humanity and community.
International Agency for Prevention of Blindness's (IAPB) “Regional Achievement Award” to our founder the late Graham Layton in 2004.
Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) Conference awarded a shield to Khwaja Zafar Hassan for his services towards prevention and combating blindness in Pakistan.
Government of Pakistan through the Federal Minister of Health awarded a shield in 2005 to LRBT in recognition and appreciation of its outstanding contribution to the prevention of blindness and advancing professional educational understanding and goodwill among mankind.
1st Annual “Health and Environment National Excellence Award 2005”.
LRBT has been nominated for the 2008 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize which honours “a charitable or non governmental organization that has made an extraordinary contribution towards alleviating human suffering anywhere in the world’. This Prize is the world’s largest humanitarian award and previous awardees include Medicines Sans Frontieres and International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims.
LRBT has been invited by President Clinton to attend the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) meeting in Hong Kong in December this year. “Participation in this meeting is by invitation only and is limited to Heads of States, CEO’s, academics, NGO leaders, philanthropists and other prominent individuals". This invitation is an acknowledgement of LRBT`s work in the area of preventing curable blindness in Pakistan.
