Your donation has the power to unlock an extra $10 Million to cure blindness! Donate Now Your donation has the power to unlock an extra $10 Million to cure blindness! Donate Now
Help Us Unlock $10 Million

News & Stories

Subscribe to our mailing list

Tabin Newsletter Video

Drs. Tabin & Ruit receive 2021 ASCRS Foundation Chang-Crandall Humanitarian Award

HCP Co-founders Drs. Geoff Tabin and Sanduk Ruit were awarded the 2021 ASCRS Foundation Chang-Crandall Humanitarian Award during the organization’s annual conference last week.
Read More

Read this story
51e5f56d 59af 4d08 83a7 d7724b6edb57

School Screening Program In Ethiopia Delivers Fresh Sight to Nearly 200 Teachers and Students

For children who suffer from poor vision, learning effectively in school is a challenge. For those with cataract blindness, it can mean the end of their education entirely. Early screening...
Read More

Read this story
Shardow 8

Matching Campaign Raises $182,867 for Sight-Restoring Surgeries

​The Himalayan Cataract Project marked National Cataract Awareness Month with a successful matching campaign and cataract outreach work in Ghana, Sierra Leone, Kenya and Tanzania.
Read More

Read this story

HCP Enhances Data Capacity

​In order to understand and maximize our impact, the HCP Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) team carefully tracks all of our program data.
Read More

Read this story
Ghana

Partners Ramp Up Care Across Ghana

Cataract surgical outreach is off to a strong start in Ghana this year, as our partners increase the amount of life-changing eye care services to those who need it most.
Read More

Read this story
Ethiopia

The transformative effect of sight restoring surgery

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

Read this story
Ghana

Training Advances Skills for NCOP team

​Ghana Health Service’s team members are delivering modular training workshops to optometrists, ophthalmic nurses and technicians who are part of HCP’s network of implementing partners.
Read More

Read this story
IMG 6921 1
Ethiopia

Degnesh's story highlights the importance of eye care

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

Read this story
Emailheaderaward

HCP Co-founders receive Humanitarian Award

HCP Co-founders Drs. Geoff Tabin and Sanduk Ruit were recently awarded the 2021 ASCRS Foundation Chang-Crandall Humanitarian Award. The ASCRS Foundation supports physician education and provides humanitarian cataract surgery in...
Read More

Read this story