We will also be delighted to provide tutors, games, props and organise eye care workshops, lectures, blindfolded and tactile games for your members/clients. If you’re planning a large-scale event such as a carnival, we’ll even bring along informative and entertaining exhibition boards, VR interactive games, etc.
Community Eye Care Workshops and Talks
Eager to host an eye care workshop or blindfold experience where your members/clients can develop empathy and teamwork by discovering the daily problems facing the blind? Take the first step to learning more about eye health issues such as myopia, dry eye, glaucoma, cataracts, etc, by contacting us today!
Free Community Events
Co-Host Blindfolded Experience Workshop and Eye Care Lecture With Orbis
Why does myopia effect some children but not others? Can seniors afford to ignore glaucoma and cataracts? Our Community Group will build your participants’ awareness of eye diseases by selecting content that matches their age and preferences. Our popular blindfold experience and eye protection games will also help attendees to cultivate empathy and become more understanding of others.
Target: Uniformed groups/youth organizations/elderly centers/residential clubs/parent-child and other community organizations
Time required: about 1 hour
Venue: Provided by the applicant (Must have internet access, a projector and audio equipment)
Number of people: At least 25 people
Time required: about 1 hour
Venue: Provided by the applicant (Must have internet access, a projector and audio equipment)
Number of people: At least 25 people
Eye Care Workshop and Lecture Highlights
Learn how Orbis and its supporters:/volunteers:
- Plan community activities to encourage Hongkongers to take better care of their eyes and have annual eye checks
- Visit local communities to promote daily eye care knowledge and eliminate bad eyesight habits
- Work closely with voluntary ophthalmology groups in order to explain the main causes of serious eye diseases and arrange visual screenings for the needy
- Promote Blindfolded Experience Workshops so as to cultivate compassion for the needlessly blind and other disadvantaged groups
- Use popular social media platforms to advocate the importance of global blindness prevention and sight saving
Overview and Report of Community Events
Achievements in the Past 3 Years
Eyecare Talk
No. of events: 28
No. of people served: 1,227
Blindfold Workshop
No. of events: 43
No. of people served: 2,905
Community Eye Screening
No. of events: 3
No. of people served: 512
Exhibition and Booth
No. of events: 12
No. of people served: 6,000+
In 2021, Orbis joined forces with the University of Hong Kong’s Department of Ophthalmology and conducted comprehensive eye examinations for over 40 seniors at the Volunteer Development Bureau’s West Park Senior Center.
