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Make a Difference with a Gift to the EyeCare Project
Your help provides hope . . . and vision
Welcome to the Armenian EyeCare Project’s gift giving page. We have three easy ways for you to give so you can provide sight for Armenian eyes through a donation to AECP. We also have a planned giving program for those who wish to link their donation to their long-term financial goals, accept gifts-in-kind, and encourage matching gifts. Contributions to AECP are used to achieve our mission in five different areas:
- To provide direct patient care—treatments and surgeries on Mobile Eye Hospital and in AECP Clinics.
- To purchase medications and equipment.
- To operate a mobile eye hospital to treat patients in rural villages.
- To train Armenian ophthalmologists and family physicians in Armenia and the United States.
- To sponsor patients requiring specialized care in the United States.
How Your Gift Will Help
Your gift of money, alone or combined with gifts from other friends of the Armenian EyeCare Project, will go a long way in helping us to accomplish our mission.
Our mission at AECP is to fight the growing wave of blindness in Armenia and to make 21st Century eye care available and affordable to every Armenian child and adult. With your help, we can win that fight. Choose one of the many ways of gift giving to share with those who need you. Your gift will be used to help fund one of the following programs. We will use your gift where it is needed most, or you may select which area you wish to fund.
Direct patient care. AECP ophthalmologists make semi-annual medical missions to Armenia to deliver direct patient care that includes examinations, medication, outpatient procedures and surgeries. These physicians have performed more than 70,000 procedures and eye surgeries in the past seven years, since the Mobile Eye Hospital arrived in Armenia.
Medicine and medical equipment. AECP receives in-kind donations from pharmaceutical companies, medical manufacturers, and individuals to supply equipment and medicine to Armenia, more than $18 million in the past seven years. Because supplies and much of our equipment is disposable, we have to be constantly replenishing.
Medical training. AECP specialists provide on-site training to Armenian doctors in the latest medical techniques with the long-term goal of enabling them to become self-reliant. We also provide U.S. ophthalmology fellowships in the United States for a selected number of outstanding Armenian physicians. Six one-year Fellowships and three Observerships have been completed since the program began in 1994. Our sixth Fellowship, a Pediatric Ophthalmology fellowship was completed at the University of California, Irvine, in 2007.
Mobile Eye Care Center. One of our greatest needs is funds to operate the Mobile Eye Care Center. To enable us to reach the people living in the rural villages of Armenia we are developing a fully equipped mobile eye hospital. Staffed by Armenian ophthalmologists and other eye care professionals, the MEH has two operating rooms, three examination rooms and will have everything necessary to care for patients and to perform outpatient surgeries.
Patient sponsorships. AECP sponsors Armenian patients requiring extended and specialized treatment in the United States. To date, 20 Armenians have received complimentary medical care and lodging in the United States. Some have remained in our country four or five years because of the severity of their disease and the number of surgeries they have required.
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