News and Stories

Peru: Saving The Sight Of Triplets At Risk Of Retinopathy of Prematurity

When Elisa first learned that her newborn triplets were at risk for Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP), she didn’t know what it meant. “I didn’t know anything about eye conditions,” she said. Her three older children hadn’t been screened for ROP and this was the first time she’d heard of it.

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.

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.

Women Deliver Conference Vancouver Canada

Women Deliver: Seven Take-Aways

July 22, 2019

This June, over 8,000 extraordinary people came together at Women Deliver in Vancouver to share ideas and champion a more equal world for women across the globe. Here are some takeaways that we found inspiring:

HATCH: Making Positive Change through Plane Pull for Sight

July 22, 2019

Sporting their bright orange t-shirts, big smiles, and infectious enthusiasm, the team from Hatch have been a mainstay at our Plane Pull for Sight events in Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver for the past three years.

Flying Eye Hospital pilot and FedEx volunteer Captain Gary Dyson

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

July 18, 2019

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.

Update: Women Deliver 2019

June 05, 2019

We're fortunate to have some extraordinary women at the heart of the Orbis family. Right now, five of us are at the Women Deliver conference in Canada where thousands of people have come together to tackle the biggest issues women and girls face around the world.

See Her Potential

June 02, 2019

Blindness is a gender issue – one that leaves millions of women and girls without the same access to quality eye care that men receive. Thanks to our amazing local partners and committed supporters, we're working to close the gender blindness gap and help women and girls reach their full potential.

Blindness is a gender issue with 90 million women not having access to quality eye care

Five Reasons Blindness is a Gender Issue

May 28, 2019

Gender is something that’s discussed a lot these days, but no one is talking about the gender gap in blindness – 139 million women & girls are living with blindness and vision loss. That's 25 million more women than men.

So why does this injustice exist? Here are five reasons...