The Gift of Sight Ball in aid of Orbis 2019
January 2019
On Wednesday 23 January, Orbis hosted the Gift of Sight Ball at the RDS Dublin. On the night, an impressive €160,000 was raised for our sight restoring work in southern Ethiopia!
Photos from the evening
how your donations will be spent in Ethiopia
Orbis in Ethiopia
Almost six million people in Ethiopia are blind or visually impaired. Cataracts are the leading cause, affecting some 1.7 million people. The country also accounts for 30% of trachoma in sub-Saharan African countries, or 1.2 million people. With only 130 ophthalmologists in the country, there is a severe shortage of eye health professionals.
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