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July 2010 Newsletter
Village intervention in Mwandama, Malawi; High-volume cataract program in Ethiopia; Successful outreach camp in Ghana; Ongoing training at Kenyatta National Hospital in Kenya; Dr. Ruit receives CMO Asia Brand Builder of the Year Award; Mid-year reports from Nepal and Tibet; Eight-year-old raises over $100 for Himalayan Cataract Project selling lemonade
June 2010 Newsletter
Successful bidder selected for Ghana Eye Center; Video documents cataract program in Hetauda, Nepal; Ethiopian team arrives in Nepal; New book “Seeing More Colors” to benefit HCP; Man from Vacaville, CA rides for HCP; HCP’s inaugural International Fellow completes his training
May 2010 Newsletter
Himalayan Cataract Project receives major endowment gift; HCP satisfying its mission in Ghana; “Setting the standard” for residency training in Ghana; HCP Board Member Dr. Matt Oliva and Affiliated Ophthalmologist Dr. Paul Imperia featured in Oregon’s Mail Tribune; Dr. Geoff Tabin profiled in Utah’s Deseret News
April 2010 Newsletter
HCP earns 4-star rating from Charity Navigator for 5th year in a row; Outreach efforts in India and Nepal with Drs. Ruit and Tabin; HCP teams with SightLife to tackle Corneal Blindness in Nepal; Trinidad Trainees at Tilganga; HCP International Cornea Fellow in Ghana; Bhutanese cornea fellow trains in Boston
March 2010 Newsletter
Bestselling author of “Three Cups of Tea” discusses new book about HCP Co-Directors Drs. Tabin and Ruit; HCP’s Dr. Sanduk Ruit heralded as “God of Sight to the Poor” in AP articles; Successful training of Nigerians at Tilganga; Continued cataract work in Mekelle, Ethiopia; Eye Hospital in Ghana receives green light from USAID; Snowbird event raises over $180,000; 4th-grader raises $50 for HCP
February 2010 Newsletter
A successful cataract workshop at the Hetauda Community Eye Hospital in Nepal; Cornea & cataract program in Rwanda highlighted in local newspaper; Co-Director Dr. Geoff Tabin at the Kenyatta Hospital in Nairobi
January 2010 Newsletter
Update from HCP projects in West Bengal, India; Park City Magazine features Dr. Geoff Tabin; Tilganga co-organizes National Workshop on pediatric eye care; HCP Board Member receives faculty appointment; Snowbird event to benefit HCP
November 2009 Newsletter
HCP’s National Geographic Adventure feature article; A cataract workshop in Ethiopia provides 598 sight-restoring surgeries; USAID's FrontLines newspaper reports on the Tilganga Eye Center expansion in Kathmandu; USAID announces $700,000 grant to develop a refractive surgery center at Tilganga; International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness and USAID A2Z Child Blindness Program meetings
September 2009 Newsletter
Millennium Promise Partners’ Meeting, “Eagle Eyes” book for youth, partnership with ORBIS International to train surgical teams from Africa, eye care intervention in Rwanda, SightLife global eye banking conference
August 2008 Newsletter
Tilganga expansion, AAO Outstanding Humanitarian Service Award, eye care interventions in Uganda and Ethiopia, outreach work in Ghana, HCP article in Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today
Summer 2007 Newsletter
Order of Australia honor, Columbia University's Earth Institute's Millennium Villages Project, North Face event