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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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Ethiopia

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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Ethiopia Ghana Nepal

Celebrations around the globe mark World Sight Day

Every year on the second Thursday in October, the global eye care community comes together to mark World Sight Day - a special day to focus global attention on blindness...
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Ghana

Thomas Badu

During a recent outreach in Koforidua, Ghana, HCP’s partner, the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua, helped treat Thomas Badu and provide care for his vision loss. Badu, a 75-year-old from...
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Tanzania

Partnership delivers increased care to Tanzania

HCP is partnering with Helen Keller Intl this year in Tanzania. The collaboration, which pairs Helen Keller’s expertise in Trachomatous Trichiasis (TT) care and HCP’s in cataract care, will ensure...
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Convening partners to improve patient care

HCP recently hosted its first regional partners workshop in Malawi bringing together over 40 participants from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, South Sudan and the US.
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Nepal

Dr. Srijana Adhikari

Cataract blindness and vision problems do not discriminate on the basis of age. Taking care of the youngest patients’ eyes requires specialized training. The results can be incredibly rewarding -...
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KT Overbey helps child

Join us in welcoming our new CEO!

The Himalayan Cataract Project’s Board of Directors is delighted to welcome Katherine G. Overbey (K-T) as HCP's CEO, effective October 4, 2022.
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Ghana

Child eye exams can catch other health issues early

There are many causes of childhood blindness, including disease, malnutrition, and injury. As HCP has progressively built and strengthened systems of eye care in the countries where we work, additional...
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