changing the way the world sees

I BELIEVE. YOU BELIEVE. WE BELIEVE!

For the month of December, we’re asking you to believe. Help us raise $100,000 this holiday season to save sight and change lives.

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Sightlines 4: Aviation for Good

Learn about the Flying Eye Hospital - its history, the amazing technology on board, and what it has been doing during the pandemic.

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Our response to Covid-19

Read about how we're continuing to fight avoidable blindness and save sight amidst the pandemic.

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About orbis

OUR MISSION & VISION

We are an international non-profit that brings people together to fight avoidable blindness. With our network of partners we mentor, train and inspire local eye care teams to fight blindness in their own communities.
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Eye On Orbis

Skills learnt with Orbis are helping this health worker protect his patients during the pandemic

November 26, 2020

Charles Chikwanda, an ophthalmic clinical officer trained by Orbis, works in a mining town in Zambia which borders the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). His town is particularly susceptible to coronavirus cases as it is on busy route between the countries, and people often spend a few days in the town before they are cleared to get into DRC.

YOU’VE TRAINED COUNTLESS HEROES DURING THE YEAR OF THE NURSE

November 18, 2020

Despite being in lockdown in her village in Wuhan, China, Orbis Nurse Xiao Ying continued her work. Xiao Ying couldn’t travel on Orbis’s Flying Eye Hospital because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But thanks to the internet and Orbis supporters like you, this dedicated nurse continued to teach and help other nurses build their skills.

Flying Eye Hospital pilot and FedEx volunteer Captain Gary Dyson

The View From The Cockpit: 10 Questions With Captain Gary Dyson

November 10, 2020

Orbis’s Chief Pilot, Gary Dyson, quite literally leads our fight against avoidable blindness – landing our plane safely in communities around the world. We took a moment with Gary to reflect on his lifetime dedicated to giving back and changing lives.

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Watch & Share: Solution In Sight

Watch our new documentary film following some of our staff and crew on our recent project in Myanmar. This short film gives a behind-the-scenes account of what it's like to work on the front lines of the fight against avoidable blindness.
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We need your support now more than ever before.

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 our state-of-the-art surgical training hospital on board an MD-10 aircraft. Staffed by an expert medical team and our world-leading Volunteer Faculty, this amazing plane travels the world training local eye care teams.
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The Impact of Your Support in 2019

More than 66,000

Trainings for eye care professionals delivered

74 projects

In 28 countries

More than 183,000

Eye glasses prescribed