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Exciting News! HCP Cureblindness expands its global impact through acquisition of SightLife International

We are thrilled to share that HCP Cureblindness has acquired SightLife International. The newly combined organization will enable us to make a greater global impact in eye care – allowing more people the joy and possibilities that sight affords. Your support of HCP Cureblindness will now have an even greater impact, as we expand our programming to address even more causes of preventable blindness. More people will now benefit from the gift of sight, in more places around the world thanks to your generosity. 

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How is my donation used?

The Himalayan Cataract Project takes great pride in our financial efficiency and accountability. We work to maximize the value of every donation we receive and strive to direct those funds where they are most needed in support of our efforts to eradicate preventable blindness throughout the world.

  • 88% Programs
  • 7% Administrative Costs
  • 5% Fundraising

The Himalayan Cataract Project is a registered 501(c)(3) organization and has received a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator for seven consecutive years. Donations to the Himalayan Cataract Project are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.

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The Himalayan Cataract Project Sustainers Circle is a community of donors dedicated to eliminating needless blindness around the world. Our Sustainers Circle provides steady, reliable funding allowing us to enhance our impact while maximizing the resources we direct to programs (and minimizing those directed to fundraising).

Benefits to our Sustainers Circle members:

  • Sustained giving enables you to budget your philanthropic giving over the course of a year, leveraging a monthly gift into greater annual impact
  • An environmentally friendly and cost-effective giving option: more money can go to the programs you care about, keeping fundraising costs low, while also reducing paper, stamps and postal resources
  • A designated staff member, Dana Coste, who will act as your point of contact
  • Enhanced donor status, as a part of a global community that is committed to strengthening eye care systems around the world
  • A welcome package with contact information, membership information and special gift
  • Annual statement for tax preparation

Donor Profile

Legally blind herself, Deb could relate to the struggles associated with cataracts and vision loss, and wanted to give back.

She could not believe how simple it was to give a person in the developing world the opportunity to regain their sight.

Read Her Story

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Facts

10/$25

A 10-minute, $25 surgery restores sight to the needlessly blind

80%

Eighty percent of blindness can be treated or prevented

16 Million

Needlessly blind cataract patients still await care

740,000+

Since 1995, HCP & partners have performed over 740,000 surgeries in the developing world

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Help us deliver sight restoring procedures and minimize expenses.

I believe this is probably the best you can do to humankind. It's so cost effective and it gives so much. So much power, so much change in the life of people.

– Dr. Sanduk Ruit, Co-Founder