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Through the ORBIS Lens: A Happy 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. 

 

 

Dr. Bidya Pant, a cataract specialist from Nepal and ORBIS Volunteer Faculty member, poses with a delighted patient a day after performing his cataract surgery during an ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital training program. 

Learn more about cataracts in our latest video: http://youtu.be/34FLgzzHhyw

Photo: Clare Louise Thomas / ORBIS

Through the ORBIS Lens: Cyber-Sight® Turns 10!

 

“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. 

 

 

As Cyber-Sight® celebrates ten years as a successful program, we take this opportunity to thank everyone for their support and participation. We recognize and greatly value the contributions of our partner doctors, our volunteer mentors, and many other supporters over the years.  We could not have achieved this milestone without each one of you and we look forward to the future as we continue our work together.

Read more: http://bit.ly/13AxxCc

Photo: Geoff Oliver Bugbee / ORBIS

Through the ORBIS Lens: ORBIS in South Africa

“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. 

 

Two-year-old Sbonga Nyadi two weeks after his surgery at Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital (IALCH) in Durban, South Africa. 

Learn more about ORBIS's work in South Africa: http://bit.ly/ZWFvYc

 

Photo: ORBIS

Through the ORBIS Lens: ORBIS in Bangladesh

“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. 

 

 

Sirazul Islam, age 24, a farmer suffering rom cataracts, being screened at a ORBIS partner in Bangladesh.

Learn more about ORBIS's work in Bangladesh: http://bit.ly/15yRtWn

 

Photo: Geoff Oliver Bugbee / ORBIS

 

Through the ORBIS Lens: All Smiles

“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. 

Thol Ram (left) is all smiles following her mother Thou Hem's post-operative examination aboard the ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital during a training program in 2007 in Cambodia. 

Wondering where the Flying Eye Hospital is going in 2013? Visit: http://bit.ly/11cSRdV

 

Photo: Kristyna Wentz-Graff / ORBIS

Through the ORBIS Lens: A Long-Term Vision

“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. 

 

Patients wait at a local clinic Konso, Ethiopia. ORBIS's vision for long-term country presence began in Ethiopia, where ORBIS opened an office in 1998.

Learn more about our work in Ethiopia: http://bit.ly/V5Ojbt

Photo: SEAN BREITHAUPT + YVETTE MONAHAN PHOTOGRAPHY

Through the ORBIS Lens: ORBIS in China

“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 child being examined during a school screening camp in Yunnan Province, China in 2007. 

Learn more about ORBIS's work in China:http://bit.ly/18cQeQS

Photo: Raul Vasquez

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

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