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Read recent highlights about our impactful work in Ethiopia.
Providing Needed Surgeries this week in Ethiopia:
This week Prof. Morris Hartstein, MD, Founding Director of Operation Ethiopia returned to Addis Ababa to operate on 14 children and adults needing complex oculoplastic surgeries in Addis Ababa. The patients had been screened and consulted on during our November...
Donations are now tax-deductible in Israel and the USA
We have completed the two-year long process of getting tax-deductible status as an NGO in Israel! All donations to Operation Ethiopia are now tax-deductible in both the USA and Israel. We rely entirely on donations to do our life-changing work in Ethiopia. All of our...
While War Rages in Israel, we Continue our Work in Ethiopia:
Despite the war in Israel, and air flights suspended between Ethiopia and Israel, Operation Ethiopia continues to FIGHT BLINDNESS in Ethiopia. Last week we ran a Cataract Campaign in Mekele, Tigray region where together with our valued partner HCP Cure...
We Restored Eyesight to 400 Blind People in Northern Ethiopia
In July 2023, Operation Ethiopia restored eyesight to 400 blind people in northern Ethiopia suffering from dense untreated cataracts, over the course of one week. Three surgeons operated simultaneously from morning to evening at Ayela hopsital in Azzezo and the impact...
Watch our Israeli Volunteer team treat 2,000 patients in Northern Ethiopia!
We returned from our Operation Ethiopia July medical mission where our Israeli volunteer team together with Ethiopian translators and young adults from the local Jewish community treated over 2,000 patients in rural villages! Working hard morning til night our...
Meeting with the Ethiopian Ambassador to Israel: “G-D Will Pay You”:
We were so honored to be invited to the Ethiopian Embassy today in Tel Aviv to meet the new Ethiopian Ambassador to Israel, Tesfaye Yetayeh Anteneh. After discussing how we can expand our Eyecare in Ethiopia and establish connections with the Health Minister to...
DCR Surgical Mission in Ethiopia a Huge Success!
After months of planning, this past week's DCR surgery campaign in Northern Ethiopia was TREMENDOUSLY IMPACTFUL and incredibly rewarding! We PERFORMED OVER 100 tear duct bypass surgeries on patients from young children to seniors who'd been unable to get surgery and...