Eyewitness magazine

Welcome to the online version of our Eyewitness magazine. Inside this edition, you'll find: Sightlines: seeing the difference you make; Fundraising during Covid; Turning challenges into opportunities; CatarAction - a new initiative.

Welcome From Maurice Geary, Director of the Flying Eye Hospital

Thanks to the commitment and support from our Orbis family we have been continuing to fight against the odds. You’ve helped us adapt so that we can deliver vital eye care to people around the world.

In this newsletter you will see how your support has enabled our spirit of innovation, when I talk about how the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital has turned challenges into opportunities. Also, following your amazing generosity to our Christmas Appeal, we are pleased to provide an update from Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

Please share our stories with your family and friends and follow us on social media – the more people who join our fight, the sooner we will be able to end avoidable blindness.

With many thanks for your support through these difficult times. It’s great to have you with us!

SIGHTLINES: A new video and podcast series

SIGHTLINES is a new Orbis Video Podcast series hosted by our very own Dr. Hunter Cherwek, Vice President of Clinical Services. The series discusses the global fight against blindness, how COVID-19 is impacting that fight, and how Orbis is innovating to overcome and move forward.

Adapting fundraising in Covid times

When Melissa Perkins contacted us early in 2020 about the upcoming year of fundraising she was planning on Orbis’s behalf, little did she know how the year would evolve. She had to adapt her plans, while ensuring that she could raise as much money as possible.

How we turned challenges into opportunities

Maurice Geary, Director of Orbis’s Flying Eye Hospital tells us how your support has helped us respond to recent challenges.

Did you know cataract is the leading cause of blindness in the world?

A cataract operation would be free to us on the NHS but thousands of people around the world do not have access to the eye care they need. With your help and a straightforward operation, that can take as little as 20 minutes, lives can be transformed.

Thanks to you, more people can access safe eye care throughout the pandemic

While the coronavirus has dominated our lives over the past 12 months, once again our Orbis family – you the supporters, answered our call and stood by us.

HRH The Countess of Wessex praises Orbis at WISH

At the virtual World Innovation Summit for Health in November 2020, Her Royal Highness The Countess of Wessex commended our work.

Help continue this sight-saving work

We hope you've enjoyed reading about how your gifts are transforming lives - and it has made you proud to support Orbis. You can help continue this sight-saving work by supporting us further below. Thank you so much for everything you do.

You can have an enormous impact on people's lives in some of the poorest parts of the world.

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Leaving a gift to Orbis in your Will can help save sight and transform the lives of even more people.

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