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Through the ORBIS Lens: A Happy Day

2013-06-18T17:31:21-04:00

“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® Brings Opportunity

2013-06-14T16:52:46-04:00

“I really appreciate the opportunity to start out the whole ORBIS program and kick it off with Cyber-Sight. What it does is allows me to get a sense of the level of the host country is at with respect to their surgical and technical abilities. You can determine basically the kind of problems they want to tackle. It helps you prepare for your lectures, it helps you prepare for and orient your own personal program to maximize the learning capacity of the host country.” --Dr. Gene Howard, ORBIS Volunteer Faculty Member during ORBIS's Flying Eye Hospital Program in the Philippines in 2012

Photo: Geoff Oliver Bugbee/ORBIS

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

2013-06-11T18:17:56-04:00

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.

Through the ORBIS Lens: ORBIS in South Africa

2013-06-07T18:33:29-04:00

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

2013-06-04T19:05:41-04:00

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

2013-05-31T18:38:04-04:00

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

2013-05-28T17:58:31-04:00

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

2013-05-24T16:21:08-04:00

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

2013-05-17T18:04:59-04:00

“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)

2013-05-15T19:38:48-04:00

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.