Eye Surgeons Making a Difference
The Himalayan Cataract Project works to eradicate preventable and curable blindness in the developing world with a steadfast commitment to training local providers and working with partners to leverage impact.
Cataract surgery is one of the most cost effective of all health interventions. (Source: World Health Organization)
The CauseOur mobile eye-care campaigns and a growing network of specially trained surgeons and nurses are replicating our Nepal success in some of the most impoverished and hardest-to-reach locations on Earth, including Bhutan, Myanmar, and Ethiopia.
The WorkYour donation to the Himalayan Cataract Project delivers immediate life-changing eye care to the poor and underserved populations that would otherwise go without.
SupportOur doctors have performed more than 445,000 cataract surgeries in the developing world through walk-in clinics and high-volume, improvised mobile eye camps. Some 18 million needlessly-blind cataract patients still await care, most of them with no place to turn.
