Dr. Sanduk Ruit grew up in a remote village in Eastern Nepal.[citation needed] He attended school in India and completed his three-year ophthalmology residency at the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi, India. [citation needed] He also completed fellowships in microsurgery in the Netherlands and Australia as well as additional ophthalmic training at the Wilmer Eye Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the University of Michigan.[citation needed] In 1986 Dr. Ruit met Professor Fred Hollows from Sydney, Australia while Hollows visited Nepal as a World Health Organization consultant.[citation needed] He went on to study with him for 14 months at Sydney's Prince of Wales Hospital. [citation needed] Hollows was Ruit's mentor and inspiration in the work that he does.