At an HCP outreach at the Woldia Specialized Hospital in Ethiopia, we met the three Teshome sisters: 10-year-old Makoya, eight-year-old Tejitu and six-year-old Addise. All three girls were suffering from... Read More
Washed out roads and flash floods couldn’t stop HCP’s Ethiopia team from bringing critical eye care services to new communities in the country. Read More
In early March, five Ethiopian ophthalmologists arrived at Kombolcha airport and headed to an outreach at Boru Meda Hospital, a small health center on the outskirts of Dessie. Read More
Yeshi Ali Yesuf, age 35, was born deaf and has been unable to communicate verbally her whole life. Read More
Ethiopia has one of the highest rates of blindness in the world, yet 80% of cases are preventable or treatable. Through surgery outreaches and professional training, HCP and its Ethiopian... Read More
HCP Board Member Dr. Matt Oliva and our partners in Ethiopia recently organized a two-week long surgical outreach at Bisidimo Hospital in Harar, Ethiopia. Over the course of the campaign... Read More
“I ask myself, ‘Why do I do this?’ The answer comes the next morning when the bandages come off, and patients dance and doctors cry.” - Dr. David Khorram. Read More
Cataract surgery is life changing, both for the patient and for their caregivers, as underscored by the following three stories from patients at a recent surgical outreach event in Bahir... Read More
During a surgical outreach at Wolaita Sodo University in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, Ethiopia, HCP’s medical teams encountered 25-year old Degnesh, whose story captures the joy of... Read More