The Armenian EyeCare Project (hereafter AECP) is a US-based charity organization founded in 1992 by Armenian-American ophthalmologist Dr. Roger Ohanesian. Its mission is to eliminate preventable blindness and make eye care accessible to all people in Armenia. To this end, many highly qualified American academic ophthalmologists have been invited to visit Armenia to treat patients and share the knowledge with their Armenian colleagues. As well, large quantities of medication and equipment have been brought to Armenia. The AECP carries out its activities in the Republic of Armenia in close cooperation with its partners in Armenia and outside.



In 2003, the AECP established an office in Yerevan and launched its program “Bringing Sight to Armenian Eyes.” The Initiative has five comprehensive, integrated components developed to eliminate preventable blindness. They include direct patient care, medical education and training, public education, research and capacity building. The Mobile Eye Hospital, a state-of-the-art facility, travels country-wide to provide high quality eye care in the regions of Armenia. 

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The AECP, in cooperation with the USAID and the Ministry of Health launched a three year program “Center of Excellence for the Prevention of Childhood Blindness” in 2012. The vision for this program is that all children in Armenia and surrounding countries have specialized eye care available to them and that childhood blindness from ROP is eliminated.  It is the logical continuation of a national program “Prevention and Treatment of the Prematurity of Retinopathy” that the AECP carries out since 2010 in Armenia. 

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The main partners of the AECP are as follows: