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New Education Modules Help Advance Eye Care Training Options

COVID-19 has forced both individuals and institutions to drastically change the way in which they do their work and engage with the world. But with change comes opportunity.
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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 in...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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R.K. and Aleah Arundale

​There are few people more devoted to Himalayan Cataract Project’s mission to cure needless blindness in under-resourced countries than R.K. Arundale and Aleah Siegel Arundale.
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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...
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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...
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Contributing Life's Lessons to HCP: The Michael Lewis Story

As the Himalayan Cataract Project marks our 25th year, few individuals have had the personal connection to our work as author, photographer, doctor and friend, Michael Lewis. Michael is an...
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