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  --- Fighting Corneal Blindness in Ethiopia
 
  --- ORBIS Holds Second VISION 2020 Workshop in East Africa
 
 -- Press Releases
 
  --- 2007
 
   ---- ORBIS Launches Three-Week Training Program in Ethiopia
 
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  --- ORBIS Partnership with Sajida Foundation Enables Bangladeshi Woman To Support Herself
 
 -- Video
 
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 -- Success stories
 
  --- A New Pediatric Eye Care Center Takes Root in Lijiang, China
 
  --- Yushi Fang of China Can Continue Farming with Restored Eyesight
 
  --- Helping Children with Strabismus
 
 -- Video
 
  --- Uncover the truth about blindness in China
- India
 
 -- Childhood Blindness Initiative
 
 -- Success Stories
 
  --- With Eyes Aligned, Boy in India Can Thrive
 
  --- Six-Year-Old in India Regains Sight and Smile after Cataract Surgery
 
  --- Indian Teen Can Support His Mother and Brother Thanks to Cornea Transplant
 
 -- Video
 
  --- Uncover the truth about blindness in India
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 -- Success Stories
 
  --- Peruvian Artist Can Continue Painting
 
  --- ROP Program in Lima Gives Mathias Sight
 
  --- Rotary Club Donation Enables Little Liza to See
 
  --- Costa Rican Boy Overcomes Shyness with Eyelid Surgery
 
  --- Costa Rican Girl Beats Retinoblastoma
 
 -- Video
 
  --- Uncover the truth about blindness in Latin America and the Caribbean
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 -- Success Stories
 
  --- Newly Constructed Eyelid Opens World of Sight for Vietnamese Teen
 
  --- Tumor Removal Saves Life of Young Vietnamese Woman
 
 -- Video
 
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- A New Pediatric Eye Care Center Takes Root in Lijiang, China
- Cornea Transplant a Success, Victoria Returns to Flying Eye Hospital to Encourage Others
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- 2010
 
 -- APEX Teams Up with ORBIS International in their Fight Against Avoidable Blindness
 
 -- Robert F. Walters Appointed Chairman of ORBIS International Board of Directors
 
 -- Cyber-Sight Receives the American Telemedicine Association’s (ATA) Award for Excellence
- 2009
 
 -- Kenyan Ophthalmologist Named FedEx Fellow Through ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital Program
 
 -- Blindness Prevention Efforts in LAC Boosted by ORBIS and FedEx
 
 -- ORBIS and FedEx Launch Sight-Saving Programs to Combat Avoidable Blindness in Latin America & the Caribbean
 
 -- ORBIS International Receives Donated Pascal® Photocoagulator from OptiMedica
- 2008
 
 -- Flying Eye Hospital Announces 2009 Itinerary
 
 -- FedEx and ORBIS Win 2008 AmCham Shanghai Corporate Social Responsibility Award
 
 -- ORBIS and Alcon Call Attention to the Aging Eye
 
 -- Flying Eye Hospital Launches Noor Dubai Educational Component with Lecture and Cyber-Sight® Demonstration
 
 -- ORBIS Helps Launch Educational Component of New Charitable Program in United Arab Emirates
 
 -- United Arab Emirates Launches “Noor Dubai” Blindness Prevention Initiative: ORBIS Invited to Play Key Role
 
 -- ORBIS and Alcon Train China's Next Generation of Sight-Savers
 
 -- ORBIS Volunteer Pilot Gil Chase Passes Away: Renowned for Aviation Skills, Diplomacy and Compassion
 
 -- Indiana University Trains FedEx Fellow Dr. Phara Khauv As Cambodia’s First Pediatric Eye Surgeon
 
 -- ORBIS International Unites East African Nations Against Avoidable Blindness
 
 -- ORBIS Welcomes Syrian President Aboard Flying Eye Hospital
 
 -- ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital Provides Catalyst for Hope and Change in the Middle East
 
 -- ORBIS International Wins Awards for Website and Video Series
 
 -- Flying Eye Hospital Lands in Dubai To Expand Network of Support
 
 -- Global Ambassador of Goodwill Visits Kuwait
 
 -- ORBIS Clinical Training Boosts Central Vietnam's Eye Care Services
 
 -- ORBIS Announces 2008 Flying Eye Hospital Itinerary
 
 -- United Airlines and FedEx Donate Plane to Create New Flying Eye Hospital
 
 -- California Eye Surgeons Journey to Vietnam to Perform Sight-Saving Surgery
 
 -- ORBIS Brings Blindness Prevention and Treatment Program to Vietnam
 
 -- ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital Returns to Myanmar
 
 -- ORBIS International Announces the Death of the Honorable Oliver Foot, President and Board Member
 
 -- Lord Mayor’s Appeal 2008 To Benefit ORBIS: Prince William Named Patron
- 2007
 
 -- 100th Blindness Prevention Flight Arrives in Cambodia
 
 -- New ORBIS Video Series on Blindness in Developing Countries Available
 
 -- High Desert Raises $145,000 to Help ORBIS
 
 -- Virtual Flight to Save Sight
 
 -- ORBIS and Alcon Team Up To Provide Eye Care Education to School Students
 
 -- Elementary Students To Launch “Kids for Sight” Campaign and Inspire Kids To 'Pay It Forward'
 
 -- Childhood Blindness Focus of World Sight Day
 
 -- Dr. David Friedman Joins ORBIS As Senior Technical Advisor, Eye Health
 
 -- ORBIS Advocate for Sight Mike Redding Treks for the Blind
 
 -- Geoffrey Holland Appointed Executive Director of ORBIS International
 
 -- ORBIS International Celebrates 25 Years of Saving Sight
 
 -- Empire State Building's Bright Lights Go Dark on March 1 As Tribute to Blind
 
 -- ORBIS Public Service Announcement Draws Attention to Global Disparities in Eye Care
- 2006
 
 -- ORBIS and Alcon Celebrate World Sight Day with Blindness Prevention Tips
 
 -- World's Only Flying Eye Hospital Visits Vietnam To Save Sight As Part of a Collaborative Humanitarian Effort
 
 -- Hundreds of Palm Beach Social Leaders Step Out for the Season's Pre-eminent Gala Celebration
 
 -- Children of India To Gain Better Access to Quality Eye Care
 
 -- Aviation and Medical Communities Connect To Save Sight and Lives
 
 -- Flying Eye Hospital Saves Sight in Uganda
 
 -- FedEx Donates $5.5 Million To Save Sight with ORBIS International
 
 -- Virtual Reality Gaining Acceptance in Ophthalmic Surgical Training Programs
 
 -- John S. Slattery Joins ORBIS International Board of Directors
 
 -- Effective Trachoma-Fighting Antibiotic Studied at ORBIS
 
 -- Aviation & Medical Communities Connect To Save Sight and Lives
- 2005
 
 -- The International Trachoma Initiative Joins with ORBIS International To Eliminate Blinding Trachoma in Ethiopia
 
 -- ORBIS Becomes First International Health NGO To Work in Libya
 
 -- Alcon Provides $1M Grant for Blindness Prevention
 
 -- ORBIS Conducts Sight-Saving Training in India with Help from FedEx
 
 -- Broken Medical Equipment Impacting Patient Care in Caribbean
 
 -- President of India Pledges To Make Vision a Reality for Millions Who Are Unnecessarily Blind
 
 -- President of India Tours Flying Eye Hospital and Joins Global Effort To End Avoidable Blindness
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- Canadian Volunteers Transform Lives
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WHAT'S NEW
- Fight blindness with light by joining ORBIS-Bupa Moonwalkers 2010!
- Over 360 new monthly donors create happy endings for blind kids!
- Mid-Autumn Charity Sale: Order Now Before It's Too Late!
- Reward the new graduate in your family with an adorable ORBIS bear
- Be our Mid-Autumn sales volunteer (Chinese)
- See a different world on our meaningful Nanning Parent-Child See-n-Feel Tour
- ORBIS "Sight for All 2010"
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 -- ORBIS Student Ambassador Campaign 2010-2011
 
  --- City University of Hong Kong: To capture our last seeable moments...
 
  --- Hong Kong International School: Dinner-in-the-Dark
 
  --- Wah Yan College, Hong Kong: "We support ORBIS wholeheartedly"
 
  --- ORBIS Student Ambassador Award Scheme (2009 - 2010)
 
  --- Hong Kong International School - Dinner in the Dark
 
  --- Ying Wa College - Encourages pupils, teachers, parents and alumni to get involved in supporting ORBIS!
 
  --- Hoi Ping Chamber of Commerce Secondary School - Public "Charity Bazaar"
 
 -- ORBIS Creative Eye-Care Campaign 2010
 
  --- ORBIS Creative Eye-Care Campaign 2010
 
  --- ORBIS Creative Eye-Care Campaign 2009
 
 -- ORBIS Pin Campaign
 
 -- Other fundraising events
 
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- Media Contacts
- Press Releases
 
 -- 2010
 
  --- Peter Hickson appointed to The Board of Directors of ORBIS International (English only)
 
  --- Airline Passenger Experience Association teams up with ORBIS International in their fight against avoidable blindness
 
  --- Robert F. Walters appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of ORBIS International
 
  --- ORBIS - Merrill Lynch Walk for Sight 2010 (Chinese)
 
 -- 2009
 
  --- 10,000 heroes walked overnight to illuminate the hope of sight (Chinese)
 
  --- 24,000 Hongkongers join hands to support 2009 World Sight Day and ORBIS Pin Campaign
 
  --- Raymond Lam fully supports ORBIS Pin Campaign (Chinese)
 
  --- Ivana Wong and Student Ambassadors sing the praises of supporting ORBIS’ Vietnamese sight-saving mission
 
  --- Ivana Wong and seven Student Ambassadors head for Vietnam to witness ORBIS's sight-saving programs (Chinese)
 
  --- Ivana Wong leads ORBIS Student Ambassadors' torch relay to increase sight-saving awareness
 
  --- Ivana Wong recruits students to join ORBIS Student Ambassador Campaign (Chinese)
 
  --- 4,000 Hongkongers join Kids Sight Carnival (Chinese)
 
  --- Michelle Yim shows storytelling talent in Kids Sight Carnival Closing Ceremony (Chinese)
 
  --- Sandra Ng touched by sight-impaired kids in Inner Mongolia (Chinese)
 
  --- Edmond So celebrates Father's Day with ORBIS (Chinese)
 
  --- Fathers and sons experience blind lives for good (Chinese)
 
  --- ORBIS appoints Sandra Ng as Kids Sight Ambassador (Chinese)
 
  --- ORBIS Pin Campaign 2009 Kick-off Ceremony (Chinese)
 
  --- Wear an ORBIS Pin and illuminate preventably blind lives in 2009 ORBIS Pin Campaign
 
  --- ORBIS appoints Raymond Lam as Eye Health Ambassador (Chinese)
 
  --- ORBIS Pin Campaign 2009 (Chinese)
 
  --- ORBIS Kids Sight Ambassador Sandra Ng delivers hope of sight to children in Inner Mongolia (Chinese)
 
  --- Walk for Sight: Artists, William Chan and Vincy join 4,400 participants at the 2009 ORBIS-Merrill Lynch Walk for Sight
 
  --- ORBIS International Appoints New President
 
  --- ORBIS - Merrill Lynch Walk for Sight 2009
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 -- Anita Yuen's Vietnam trip 2008
 
 -- Hins Cheung visited Shenyang in 2008
 
 -- Charlie Young: Sunshine Mission to Yunnan (April 2007)
 
 -- Eason Chan Visits Blind Children in India (June 2006)
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Ireland
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  --- Rajasthan Tiger Challenge, India
 
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  --- Trek to Machu Picchu, Peru
 
  --- Trek to Everest Base Camp, Nepal
 
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- ORBIS UK News
 
 -- ORBIS joins forces to find new journalism talent
 
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 -- Ethiopia Soundslide Online
 
 -- ORBIS training partner Aravind is awarded Hilton Humanitarian Award
- Medical Volunteers
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 -- ACS International Schools
 
  --- ACS Intern Catriona Walker Shares Her Story
 
 -- Euromoney Institutional Investor
 
  --- Henry Hely-Hutchinson
 
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 -- Glasses Direct
 
 -- UBS
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 -- 2010
 
  --- Sailors set sail to save sight
 
  --- Mr Robert Walters appointed Chairman of ORBIS International
 
  --- ORBIS teams up with aviation association
Shanghai
WHO WE ARE
- About the ORBIS China Development Office
- About ORBIS International
- Contact Us
- Employment
WHAT WE DO
- Blindness in China
- About the Flying Eye Hospital
- Projects in China
- Success Stories
 
 -- Yushi Fang Can Continue Farming with Restored Eyesight
 
 -- Helping Children with Strabismus
WHAT'S NEW
- Foreseeable Future
- ORBIS and SH Grand Hyatt to Save Sight Together
- Four Years' Pursuit of Brightness
- Diamonds Light Children's Hope
- A Visit to Baotou with Sandra
- FedEx and ORBIS won the Amcham Partnership Award
- Beautiful Nature. Blessed Sight.
- Ma Yulan's Story
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NEWSROOM
- Media Inquiries
- Press Releases
 
 -- 2007
 
  --- Transitions, SOOA hold Activity of Raising Civil Awareness of Cataract Prevention and Over A Hundred Glasses Stores Support ORBIS to Decrease the Number of Blind People in China
 
  --- Hilton Shanghai Unveils of Christmas Train Charity
 
  --- A power makes the world colorful - Art Exhibition for the Recovery of Blind Children
 
 -- 2008
 
  --- ORBIS International Receives Donations from FeDex and United Airlines
 
  --- ORBIS AND ALCON TRAIN CHINA'S NEXT GENERATION OF SIGHT-SAVERS
 
  --- 2008 ORBIS Shanghai donor gathering
 
  --- FedEx and ORBIS won the Amcham Partnership Award
 
 -- 2009
 
  --- STANDARD CHARTERED BANK LAUNCHES NEW SIGHT SAVING PROJECT IN DALIAN, CHINA
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