The annual Orbis Walk for Sight family fundraisers will take the form of a virtual event in 2021. Orbis invites participants to challenge, in 6 weeks, a total of 66,000,000 steps which is equivalent to the distance of travelling around the world, symbolising the significance of bringing Orbis’s sight-saving power to places in needed.

The world around us is a spectrum of colours and beauty – and never more so than for a child just starting out on life’s fascinating journey. Like all good parents, medical doctor dad Alex, working single mum Sue, and celebrity mother of three Christy all want nothing more than to see their sons and daughters grow up healthily and happily.

Equal parts teacher, advocate and envoy in the global effort to end avoidable blindness, our state-of-the-art flying teaching hospital allows us to travel the world sharing knowledge and developing skills with the communities that need it most.

Having world leading experts in eye health teamed up, our 400 volunteers of biomedical engineers, anesthetists, ophthalmologists and nurses from over 30 countries engage to advance the level of eye care for future generations through sharing their skills with local teams.