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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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Philanthropy & Artificial Intelligence: HCP's role

The Chronicle of Philanthropy recently published the opinion piece, "Philanthropy Needs to Prepare Itself for a World Powered by Artificial Intelligence", exploring the role that philanthropy can play in support...
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