Nepal

Since 1989, HKI has worked in Nepal through national partners, providing technical support, conducting training, and building local capacity for implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of projects. Today, Nepal's activities include:

• Vitamin A deficiency control >> more
• Primary eye care: Trachoma elimination; rehabilitation >> more

The major emphasis of the work of HKI-Nepal has been to prevent nutritional blindness caused by vitamin A deficiency and improve vitamin A status through supplementation and increased consumption of vitamin A-rich foods, and to promote primary eye care, particularly for the elimination of blinding trachoma as well as to provide rehabilitation and skill opportunities to persons with visual impairments.

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Program Partners

• AusAID
• The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
• His Majesty’s Government of Nepal
• Nepal Netra Jyoti Sangh
• Pfizer Inc.
• Social Welfare Council (SWC)
• Task Force Sight and Life (Hoffman La Roche)
• World Food Programme (WFP)

Key Staff:

• David Spiro - Country Director