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news Ethiopia

What Happens When Fate Knocks on Your Door

Outreach teams proactively seek out patients who may not know about upcoming outreaches to ensure those that need help receive it.
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news Ethiopia

Look & Learn: Visit Allows for More Outreaches in 2024

Visitors from Somaliland recently visited an outreach at Bisidimo to watch and learn from HCP’s experienced team to replicate the outreach after returning home.
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news Ethiopia

Ethiopian Surgeon Runs Independent Outreach Based on HCP-Model

Having worked with HCP Cureblindness for more than a decade, Ethiopian cataract surgeon Abraham Aregay hosts his first ever independent outreach structured on HCP’s proven model.
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news Ethiopia

ABC NEWS | Gift of Sight: US Doctor's $11 Fix for Epidemic

We've accomplished a lot since that story ran. But there's still a mountain of work to do.
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news Ethiopia

Patient Story: Medeset Misgana

This story highlights the collaboration between HCP Cureblindness and Woldia General Hospital in Ethiopia. Residents of Woldia face significant challenges such as poverty, limited economic opportunities, and lack of access...
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news Ethiopia

Sight Restored to 1570 Patients in War-Torn Tigray

HCP is the first and only eye care NGO to enter the Tigray region since war broke out two years ago. After much-needed equipment repairs and restocking medical supplies, we...
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Vision is Power: Restoring Vision for Over 1,500 Patients in Ethiopia

Last month, HCP’s Ethiopian team helped local providers perform over 1,500 sight-restoring cataract surgeries at Boru Meda Hospital over the course of five days. Two of the patients speak to...
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videos Ethiopia

Short film highlights impact of sight restoration

In Bisidimo, Ethiopia earlier this year, HCP Cureblindness' Ethiopian team helped local partners provide hundreds of people with sight-restoring cataract surgeries. Patients describe their journeys of living in darkness and...
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Over 2,600 sight-restoring surgeries in Ethiopia during October

HCP’s Ethiopian team helped local partners provide over 2,600 sight-restoring surgeries at four different cataract outreach events throughout October. The surgical events took place in Wolaita Sodo, Bisidimo, Bahir Dar...
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