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شراكة صندوق قطر للتنمية ومؤسسة "أوربيس" من خلال مبادرة "قطر تصنع الرؤية" تقدم مئات العمليات الجراحية المنقذة للبصر في الأشهر الثلاثة الأولى

يتم إعلان النتائج في اليوم العالمي للأعمال الخيرية؛ وهو الأمر الذي يشجع التضامن العالمي لمعالجة القضايا التنموية في جميع أنحاء العالم
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QFFD & Orbis Project Delivers Hundreds of Sight-Saving Surgeries in First Three Months

August 31, 2022

Results announced on the International Day of Charity, which encourages global solidarity to tackle issues around the world

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Moving up Mountains for Global Eye Health

August 16, 2022

When Benoît Saulnier and his wife, Stephanie, started planning a climb up Mt. Kilimanjaro, they realized they had an opportunity to not only take on a personal goal, but to make a difference at the same time. “It’s such a big trip. It’s such a big endeavour, a big investment – we wanted to make it mean something more,” he says.

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Sarnai

August 02, 2022

Sarnai (meaning “Rose” in Mongolian) is a 4-year-old girl from a nomadic family living in the countryside. She was diagnosed with a hemangioma (benign tumor) that was removed from her inner eyelid in April of 2022.

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Vision Ambassadors

July 07, 2022

In Eastern Nepal, many students have benefitted from the REACH program in their schools. To pay it forward and help other children access the eye care they need to succeed, some students have volunteered as vision ambassadors, like Priya and Priyanka.

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Glasses help Trisha to study

July 07, 2022

Trisha was 11 years old when we met her, she was struggling with her vision in school and was facing some real difficulties in reading the blackboard and books.

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Top Three Barriers Keeping Children from Cataract Treatment in India

July 06, 2022

Orbis announced its collaboration on new research published in the latest issue of the top-tier peer-reviewed medical journal PLOS ONE. The research outlines the findings.

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Bitisha, journalist in the making

June 23, 2022

Bitisha's ambition is to be a journalist. We met the then 15-year-old in February 2019 where she told us she had always “hated family photos," due to a squint that meant her eyes were misaligned - until Orbis's partners helped Bitisha access the surgery she needed to correct the intermittent exotropia, or strabismus, that caused her squint.

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A Volunteer Army Tackling Trachoma with the Support of QFFD

June 06, 2022

At the beginning of June each year, volunteers and their amazing contributions are celebrated during Volunteer Week. Their work impacts communities and individuals by changing lives through their dedication to their cause.

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