Orbis World Sight Day 2021 Keep An Eye on Eyesight
Orbis World Sight Day 2021
With COVID-19 continuing to disrupt everyone’s lives, our Flying Eye Hospital is unable to travel the world spreading hope. By supporting us on Thursday 14th October, World Sight Day (WSD) 2021, we can make still more giant strides forward in the fight against avoidable blindness.
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EYE FLOATERS：WHAT ARE THE CAUSES AND WHAT CAN YOU DO?
Eye Floaters：What Are the Causes and What Can You Do?
Most people see floaters some time during their lives. Many individuals notice some floaters even in their teens and 20s, and people who are nearsighted are particularly likely to have floaters at a younger age. During COVID-19, high frequent use of laptops and tablets may lead to high myopia and early eye floaters.
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ORBIS MID-AUTUMN CHARITY SALES
Orbis Mid-Autumn Charity Sales
This year marks the first time Orbis collaborates with leading local illustrator, Din Dong, to send everyone heartfelt festive greetings! Join Din Dong and our mascot, Seymour the Bear now to help the needlessly blind while sharing tea and mooncakes with your loved ones!
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SIGHTLINES: EDUCATIONAL EYE HEALTH MEDICAL PODCASTS
SIGHTLINES: EDUCATIONAL EYE HEALTH MEDICAL PODCASTS
SIGHTLINES is a new Orbis Video Podcast series hosted by our very own Dr. Hunter Cherwek, Vice President of Clinical Services. The series will discuss the global fight against blindness, how COVID-19 is impacting that fight, and how Orbis is innovating to overcome and move forward.
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Together we can make the world brighter
Remember the fun you had discovering the colors of our world when you were small?
Would you help Kids to live in a colourful life?
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.
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MORE THAN 66,000
Trainings for eye care professionals delivered
MORE THAN 183,000
Eye glasses prescribed
74 projects
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News and storiesTake a 360 degree virtual tour of the Flying Eye Hospital
A state-of-the-art teaching facility
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.
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Our global network of expert volunteers
The most critical deficits in global eye health is the lack of an adequately trained workforce
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.
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Meet Seymour, Orbis's Lovely bear!
MEET THE BEAR WITH THE BEST JOB EVER!
Our volunteers fly all over the world to fight avoidable blindness. But, while they’re giving the gift of sight, there’s a particularly fluffy member of our team making a different kind of impact…
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Protecting sight for the needlessly blind
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Orbis is a leader in the fight against avoidable blindness for nearly four decades. We are an international nonprofit that trains, mentors, and inspires eye care professionals in places with the greatest need so they can save and restore vision in their communities.
A young girls stares out of the windows of the Flying Eye Hospital, an eye patch over her right eye
