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27 - 28 February 2019

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Current campaign

Eye Care for the Rohingya

Help give sight and hope to the Rohingya in Bangladesh
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Smiling Children

Fighting avoidable blindness

Access to eye care for everyone

Our goal at Orbis is to help build the skills and resources communities around the world need to provide quality eye care for many generations to come.
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Your impact in 2017

62,381

eyecare specialists and community workers trained

5,044,198

screenings and examinations conducted

96,398

lasers and surgeries performed

WHAT WE DO

Country Programs

While the Flying Eye Hospital is our most iconic tool, most of our program work is done in country, on the ground, alongside local communities and partners.

We work with partners across health services to establish and strengthen existing care and provide the tools and knowledge to help restore vision for generations to come.
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Flying Eye Hospital

Take a virtual tour of the Flying Eye Hospital today

The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital is unlike any plane you’ve seen before. A state-of-the-art teaching facility complete with operating room, classroom and recovery room - this amazing aircraft has been an example of the marriage between medicine and aviation since 1982.
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News & stories

Flying Eye Hospital lands in Ethiopia for World Sight Day

October 05, 2018

The Flying Eye Hospital has landed in Ethiopia ️to help celebrate World Sight Day and our 20th anniversary of sight saving work there. We'll be working alongside our partners - the Federal Ministry of Health and the Ophthalmological Society of Ethiopia - to conduct a three-week training program to help improve the skills of local eye teams.

Patient stories: following up with strabismus patient Trinh from Vietnam

October 04, 2018

On her way to school, Trinh was knocked down by a truck and was in a coma for more than two weeks. When she woke up from her coma, she suffered from strabismus - misaligned eyes - which affected her vision. She was operated on at the Flying Eye Hospital in 2017. Looking at her now, you would never know that her eyes used to be misaligned!