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See My Future: How you’ve helped transform lives in Nepal

Thank you! Because of your support and generosity, our See My Future appeal was a huge success. The money you helped raise will also be matched by the UK government, so twice as many people will receive the sight saving treatments they deserve.
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Leave a lasting legacy this Remember A Charity Week

September 09, 2019

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve joined over 200 other charities this Remember A Charity Week in encouraging our supporters to pass on something wonderful by leaving a gift in their Will.

Orbis Volunteer Faculty and cataract removal specialist Dr.Laura Wayman

Dr. Wayman: Using technology to improve eye care in Peru

September 05, 2019

Dr. Laura Wayman has been a part of the Orbis Volunteer Faculty family for just over a year-and-a-half. In her day job she is Vice Chair for Education at the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee.

Flying Eye Hospital Lands in Vietnam

August 21, 2019

Our world-class Flying Eye Hospital has arrived in Hue, Vietnam, for a three-week teaching and training project working alongside the Ministry of Health and the Hue Eye Hospital.

Flying Eye Hospital Prepares For Vietnam

August 08, 2019

Our Flying Eye Hospital staff and crew are gearing up for the next project in Hue, Vietnam, marking its 10th trip to this beautiful country. The three-week project - due to begin later this month - will be focusing on diabetic retinopathy, retinopathy of prematurity and childhood blindness.

Phuong from a rural district in Vietnam has crossed-eye until strabismus surgery

Vietnam: Phuong no longer teased at school

August 01, 2019

Phuong from Hoai Nhon, Vietnam, was three months old when her family first spotted her crossed-eyes. After years of wrongly being told that glasses would fix her poor vision, an Orbis-supported school screening program finally gave little Phuong & her anxious mother hope for the future.

Vietnamese school boy Tam can see again after Orbis supporters kindly funded his bilateral cataracts surgery

VIETNAM: YOUNG TAM SAVED FROM A LIFE OF BLINDNESS

July 30, 2019

Tam from Quy Nhon, Vietnam, struggled with his vision from an early age. But thanks to your support, and the work of our Vietnam country office and partners we were able to give Tam his sight back without any cost to his family. Tam was diagnosed with bilateral cataracts and had it not been spotted in time, he would have been blind permanently.

Flying Eye Hospital pilot and FedEx volunteer Captain Gary Dyson

The view from the cockpit: 10 questions with Captain Gary Dyson

July 30, 2019

Orbis’s Chief Pilot, Gary Dyson, quite literally leads our fight against avoidable blindness – landing our plane safely in communities around the world. We took a moment with Gary to reflect on his lifetime dedicated to giving back and changing lives.

The history of the Great Ethiopian Run

July 29, 2019

This November's Great Ethiopian Run will be the tenth Orbis has participated in, but the history of Africa's biggest road race goes back even further, to 2001...