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Through the ORBIS Lens: A Shared Dream

“Through the ORBIS Lens” is a collection of photos showcasing the issues surrounding global eye health. Each week ORBIS will share our best photographs highlighting our efforts to eliminate avoidable blindness around the world.

“My dream is that all patients like me can get treatment” - Nguyen Thi Phuong, Vietnam

Phuong suffered from an orbital tumor that threatened not only her sight, but her life. Fortunately she was able to receive treatment through an ORBIS training program in Vietnam. She hopes for a world where no one suffers needlessly from blindness, a dream ORBIS also shares.

Learn more about ORBIS’s work in Vietnam: http://bit.ly/10Wvfyv

 

Photo: Patrick Saine/ORBIS

Focus on Sight: Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP)

 

May 15th is International Day of Families, and this year little Chi and her family can celebrate knowing she can see today after being treated for the potentially blinding disease known as Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) as an infant. To learn more about ROP watch our our new video. 

"Focus on Sight" highlights the effects of eye conditions related to avoidable blindness and how they impact the lives of people around the world. 

 

 

Through the ORBIS Lens: International Day of Families 2013

“Through the ORBIS Lens” is a collection of photos showcasing the issues surrounding global eye health. Each week ORBIS will share our best photographs highlighting our efforts to eliminate avoidable blindness around the world.

 

"Families hold societies together, and intergenerational relationships extend this legacy over time. This year’s International Day of Families is an occasion to celebrate connections among all members of the constellation that makes up a family." - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

On May 15th International Day of Families will be celebrated around the world. Blindness often impacts more than just one individual, it can prevent a parent from finding employment and impede a child's ability to gain an education, potentially leading an entire family into poverty. 

Learn more about International Day of Families: http://bit.ly/10MyAjN

Photo: Erin Trieb/ORBIS

Through the ORBIS Lens: Closing the Gap - International Nurses Day

“Through the ORBIS Lens” is a collection of photos showcasing the issues surrounding global eye health. Each week ORBIS will share our best photographs highlighting our efforts to eliminate avoidable blindness around the world.

 

 

On May 12 International Nurses Day will be celebrated around the world, a date commemorating the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth.  This year's theme for International Nurses Day is Closing the Gap: the Millennium Development Goals: 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, the slogan is intended to be a countdown to 2015, with an emphasis on health related goals. 

The largest health care profession in the world, there is no doubt that nurses are key to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Thank you to all the nurses around the world who work with ORBIS in our continued efforts to save sight worldwide!

To learn more this year's International Nurses Day visit: http://bit.ly/YzGD11

Photo: ORBIS

Through the ORBIS Lens: Happy Nurses Week!

“Through the ORBIS Lens” is a collection of photos showcasing the issues surrounding global eye health. Each week ORBIS will share our best photographs highlighting our efforts to eliminate avoidable blindness around the world.

Nurses play an important part in health care and they are an important part of ORBIS’s training to provide quality eye care. ORBIS Volunteer,  Mrs. Ann-Marie Ablett, SGN from University Hospital Wales Cardiff, United Kingdom traveled to Zambia last fall with the Flying Eye Hospital to work with local nurses and transfer skills. 

Photo: Geoff Oliver Bugbee/ORBIS

Through the ORBIS Lens: Confidence

“Through the ORBIS Lens” is a collection of photos showcasing the issues surrounding global eye health. Each week ORBIS will share our best photographs highlighting our efforts to eliminate avoidable blindness around the world.

In 2012, Lazarus was diagnosed with a cataract. Fortunately for Lazarus, ORBIS had recently provided state-of-the-art equipment, refurbished the children’s ward and is also providing ongoing training for the pediatric eye care team at Kitwe Eye Hospital in Kitwe, Zambia. A year later, his teachers report that he is more talkative and confident.

Photo: ORBIS

Through the ORBIS Lens: International Worker's Day

 

 

“Through the ORBIS Lens” is a collection of photos showcasing the issues surrounding global eye health. Each week ORBIS will share our best photographs highlighting our efforts to eliminate avoidable blindness around the world.

 

“I am so hopeful for a good future. I will go back to work and to being a good father.” - Tito Acosta Pastor, Peru

May 1 is International Worker's Day! For those in the developing world blindness often takes away so much more than just vision, it can prevent you from finding employment and can even lead you and your family into a life of poverty. Tito Acosta Pastor suffered from cataracts and was unable to work for months before he was treated through a Flying Eye Hospital training program in Peru.

Learn more about our work in Latin America and the Caribbean:  http://bit.ly/Xt11ib

 

Photo: ORBIS

Through the ORBIS Lens: A Bright Future for Nikhil

 

“Through the ORBIS Lens” is a collection of photos showcasing the issues surrounding global eye health. Each week ORBIS will share our best photographs highlighting our efforts to eliminate avoidable blindness around the world.

 

Nikhil Paudel eagerly hops on his bike before his ride, an activity he was unable to perform just one year ago because of his visual impairment. Nikhil now proudly wears his new spectacles, "they make me feel smart", he boasts. Nikhil's surgery was supported through an ORBIS funded partner, Lumbini Eye Institute, in Nepal, now serving as a training facility for other ORBIS supported fellowships in the country. 

Photo: Geoff Oliver Bugbee/ORBIS

Through the ORBIS Lens: National Volunteer Week 2013

“Through the ORBIS Lens” is a collection of photos showcasing the issues surrounding global eye health. Each week ORBIS will share our best photographs highlighting our efforts to eliminate avoidable blindness around the world.

It is National Volunteer Week from April 21-27, 2013! ORBIS thanks all of the volunteers who help make our work possible. 

Volunteer faculty member Poornachandra Sundaram, biomedical engineer from Arivan India, trains local biomedical engineers from Ilorin, Nigeria on properly cleaning and maintaining instruments. 

Photo: Clare Louise Thomas

Through the ORBIS Lens: A Special Smile

“Through the ORBIS Lens” is a collection of photos showcasing the issues surrounding global eye health. Each week ORBIS will share our best photographs highlighting our efforts to eliminate avoidable blindness around the world.

A smile can light up even the darkest room. Abdulmejid Hussein, age 4, smiles before his surgery on the ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital during ORBIS's Flying Eye Hospital program last year in Addis Ababa. 

Photo: Geoff Oliver Bugbee/ORBIS