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Valentine's Day: Volunteer pilots Pete & Cheryl Pitzer outside the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital

Love Is In The Air On Our Flying Eye Hospital

February 13, 2020

As today is Valentine's Day and we’re a romantic bunch here at Orbis, we wanted to share a heartwarming story about two pilots, Captains Cheryl and Pete Pitzer, who not only fell in love with the Flying Eye Hospital – but also each other.

Orbis Monthly Appeal - Dai from Vietnam had cataracts in both eyes

Dai's World Was a Blur - Until Now

January 28, 2020

Imagine you're nine years old. All you want is to spend your days playing outside with friends, riding your bike and exploring your neighborhood. But the world is a strange and dangerous place…because you were born with cataracts. When you can’t see clearly, even walking out your front door is scary.

India: Vaishnavi can smile again now that she can see

January 16, 2020

When Vaishnavi started to lose her sight to a cataract, her father feared she would struggle in school. But, all thanks to a new pediatric eye care project set up at our partner hospital in India's poorest state, our Volunteer Faculty were able to remove her cataract while giving local doctors the opportunity to learn new skills.

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