News and Stories

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National Flight Centre and Orbis

We are delighted to welcome National Flight Centre, one of Europe’s longest-established Pilot Academies, to Orbis as a Corporate Partner.

HELL & BACK 2022

Congratulations to our outstanding teams on completing the Hell & Back challenge.

On October 1st 2022 35 people took on the HELL & BACK Challenge - Ireland's Toughest Mental & Physical Challenge - to raise money for Orbis.

Meet Habtamu and his twins

Today, we’re introducing you to some of the extraordinary sets of doubles in our Orbis family.

Depression and Eye Health

Orbis’s new study posits that the mental health of children with vision impairment may be adversely affected because they tend to participate in fewer physical activities, have lower academic achievement and are more socially isolated. Continue reading to learn more about this new study.

Teshager’s Future Looked Bleak. Now He’s Starting School!

Teshager never got up in the morning like other children in his town. He didn’t play with other kids or go to school either. The pain in his eyes and not being able to see well was too much for the six-year-old boy to bear. For Teshager and his family, their future would be a challenge! That was until our teams in Ethiopia saved his vision.

World NTD Day 2022: Celebrating 23 years fighting Trachoma

January 30 is World NTD Day - a day to highlight the action needed to control & eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases. It's also an opportunity to celebrate the progress made by the global community to help the 1.7B lives threatened by them. For 23 years we've been working in Ethiopia to tackle the spread of blinding trachoma.

Meskenem's Story

Little Meskenem was just four years old, when she was presented by her older brother, Gabriel, for cataract screening at Karat District Hospital.