Happiness sparked in Saipal, Nepal
Scanning the surrounding mountains with newly-unbandaged eyes Pyaru Bohora, a 77-year-old patient exclaimed, “Oh, it’s morning! I can see now!” Her happiness could be felt rising like the warmth...
Nov 27, 2020
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HCP featured in The New York Times
This has been an extraordinary week for the Himalayan Cataract Project!
Nov 27, 2020
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Bhutan Celebrates World Sight Day with Sight-Restoring Surgeries
October 8, 2020 was World Sight Day, an annual day of awareness held on the second Thursday of October, to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment. The International Agency for...
Oct 29, 2020
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In Memoriam: Dr. Alan S. Crandall
Global eye care lost a champion with the recent passing of Dr. Alan S. Crandall, a brilliant surgeon whose compassion knew no boundaries. On behalf of the Himalayan Cataract Project,...
Oct 29, 2020
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Himalayan Cataract Project Announces Tally of Over One Million Surgeries
The Himalayan Cataract Project (HCP) announced recently that the eye care organization achieved a major milestone. Together with its collective network of partners around the world, the HCP has reached...
Oct 23, 2020
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Surgical Outreach Work Resumes in Ghana
After pausing outreach events in mid-March in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, HCP’s partners in Ghana have carefully resumed small-scale outreach and surgical care, shifting the focus from high-volume...
Sep 30, 2020
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HCP’s Virtual 25th Anniversary Celebration
Drs. Geoff Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, Co-founders of the Himalayan Cataract Project invite you to a virtual celebration of our 25th Anniversary of providing transformative eye care.This will...
Sep 30, 2020
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Eye Bank of Ethiopia Wins Award Highlighting Success of Public Private Partnership
The Eye Bank of Ethiopia has been awarded the 2020 P3 Impact Award.
Sep 30, 2020
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New Education Modules Help Advance Eye Care Training Options
In mid-August, Ethiopian trainers brought the modules to Debre Berhan, Ethiopia to use the modules to provide instruction and skills transfer to four ophthalmic nurses, four optometrists and two biomedical engineers in the area.
Aug 31, 2020
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A Story of Hope from Recent Efforts
A number of HCP’s partners have resumed moderate cataract surgical outreach after the threat of COVID-19 temporarily paused outreach activities earlier this year. Five partners in Ghana and three...
Aug 31, 2020
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HCP Announces New Speciality Eye Center in Ethiopia
Ethiopia shoulders one of the highest burdens of blindness in the world, with an estimated backlog of 800,000 people with cataract blindness. Only 70,000 Ethiopians receive cataract surgery each year, leaving hundreds...
Aug 31, 2020
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Thanks to Your Kindness, Sight-Restoring Surgeries Have Resumed in Bhutan
Thanks to so many of you who gave to our matching campaign in June, Himalayan Cataract Project is able to support our partners in Bhutan as they resume eye care...
Jul 29, 2020
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Our Work Continues - Update on Nepal from HCP Co-Founder Dr. Sanduk Ruit
We know how much you care about the needlessly blind people we serve.
Jul 29, 2020
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HCP trainee rides out COVID lockdown with fellowship
Dr. Bezawit Tadegagne Abera, an ophthalmologist from St. Paul's Millennium Medical College in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, arrived in Kathmandu on Dec 1, 2019 for a 5-month hands-on training program at the Tilganga...
Jun 30, 2020
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Virtual Grand Rounds Highlights Global Blindness
While COVID-19 has created challenges for in person meetings, clinical care and international travel, HCP Co-founder Dr. Geoff Tabin has used it as an opportunity to host some of the...
Jun 30, 2020
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Strong engagement drives successful #GivingTuesdayNow matching campaign
“Great organization! - Can you imagine being blind in today's world?”
May 30, 2020
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#GivingTuesdayNow Spurs Day of Action for Giving and Unity
GivingTuesday, the global generosity movement, has announced #GivingTuesdayNow, a global day of giving and unity, set to take place on May 5, 2020 as an emergency response to the unprecedented need caused...
Apr 30, 2020
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