Country Programs | Orbis

By working with partners across the health service to establish and strengthen existing care we help provide long-term, sustainable eye care to communities around the world. From rural areas to bustling cities, we aim to provide the tools and knowledge to help restore vision for generations to come.

Our long term country programs involve a wide range of activities that all work together to provide a comprehensive approach to eye care. We work with local hospitals and our teams of expert volunteers to train doctors, nurses and biomedical engineers; establishing successful eye care units to treat a wide range of conditions.

See how our country programs help strengthen eye care across all levels of the health system

Our online telemedicine platform Cybersight enables local eye teams from around the world to receive follow-up training, to access an online library of medical materials and to stay up-to-date with developments within the eye health sector.

In 2019, our country program work in Ethiopia resulted in the distribution of 13.5m doses of antibiotics to treat and prevent trachoma, a blinding bacterial infection, which if left untreated, turns eye lashes inwards, scraping the eyes surface with every excruciating blink.

Thank you for helping Nikhil find his voice

May 30, 2017

Nine-year-old Nikhil loves to sing. He is also excelling in school – but he wasn't always this way. Last year, Nikhil's mother, Leela, began noticing Nikhil's vision problems when he began holding his books close to his face to read and complaining that he couldn't see the blackboard in class.
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Our comprehensive approach looks at the whole health care system to ensure we build a robust eye care legacy that will one day help eliminate avoidable blindness for good.

But we need your support to help make this happen.

With your help our country programs will one day run without our support to reach every person in need.

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