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Flying Eye Hospital Prepares For Vietnam

August 08, 2019

Our Flying Eye Hospital staff and crew are gearing up for the next project in Hue, Vietnam, marking its 10th trip to this beautiful country. The three-week project - due to begin later this month - will be focusing on diabetic retinopathy, retinopathy of prematurity and childhood blindness.

Vietnamese school boy Tam can see again after Orbis supporters kindly funded his bilateral cataracts surgery

Vietnam: Young Tam Saved From a Life of Blindness

July 30, 2019

Tam from Quy Nhon, Vietnam struggled with his vision from an early age. But thanks to your support, and the work of our Vietnam country office and partners, we were able to give Tam his sight back without any cost to his family. Tam was diagnosed with bilateral cataracts and had it not been spotted in time, he would have been blind permanently.

Phuong from a rural district in Vietnam has crossed-eye until strabismus surgery

Vietnam: Phuong Is No Longer Teased at School

August 01, 2019

Phuong from Hoai Nhon, Vietnam, was three months old when her family first spotted her crossed-eyes. After years of wrongly being told that glasses would fix her poor vision, an Orbis-supported school screening program finally gave little Phuong and her anxious mother hope for the future.

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

4,847,084

screenings/examinations were conducted

78,195

sight-saving surgeries or laser treatments were performed

63,063

doctors, nurses, teachers and other front-line workers completed Orbis trainings