Eye On Orbis

Dr. Daniel Neely using Cybersight to train local eye doctors during a Flying Eye Hospital program

Focus on Telemedicine

March 11, 2020

Cybersight is our award winning remote training and education platform. It was launched in 2003 to allow health teams around the world to access our training and education tools anywhere, anytime - and it looks like it's going to play a bigger part in our plans for 2020 than anyone imagined.

Covid-19 response

March 18, 2020

We wanted to take a moment to outline Orbis’s response to the current public health situation. As we’re sure you can imagine, we've had to rethink some of our plans for 2020. Below is an outline of how things currently stand.

International Women's Day 2020

March 06, 2020

Worldwide, there are 25 million more women with visual impairment than men. This Sunday is International Women’s Day, which is an opportunity to shine a light on the blindness gender gap.

ABOUT ORBIS

OUR MISSION & VISION

We are an international non-profit bringing people together to fight avoidable blindness. With our network of partners we mentor, train and inspire local teams to fight blindness in their own communities.
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WHAT WE DO

SUSTAINABLE APPROACH

Training is at the very heart of everything we do. With your support and the help of our world-leading Volunteer Faculty, we provide training to all types of healthcare workers - from doctors and nurses in regional hospitals to district leaders and teachers in remote areas. Oh and we have a Flying Eye Hospital too!
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Our Canadian Volunteer Faculty

Celebrating Our Homegrown Heroes

Our world renowned Volunteer Faculty (VFs) are the heartbeat of our training programs around the world. For more than 30 years, the foundation of our work has been to teach, train and mentor eye health professionals to prevent and treat avoidable blindness in their own communities.
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Flying Eye Hospital

The World's Only Flying Eye Hospital

The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital is a state-of-the-art teaching facility complete with operating room, classroom and recovery room. This amazing aircraft has been an example of the marriage between medicine and aviation since 1982.
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Fighting avoidable blindness

Access to eye care for everyone

Our goal at Orbis is to help build the skills and resources communities around the world need to provide quality eye care for many generations to come.
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A grandfather in orange with his granddaughter, post surgery, in pink. She is wearing an eye patch

OUR GLOBAL IMPACT IN 2018

MORE THAN 3M

Eye screenings & examinations for children

More than 78,000

Eye surgeries performed

MORE THAN 63K

Trainings for eye care professionals delivered