PROVIDE A SCHOOL WITH ACCESS TO CLEAN WATER Safe Eye Care for Women & Girls in Ethiopia Training Teachers to Save Sight Restoring Vision in Ethiopia within 20 Minutes

Orbis Ireland

Org #5255
Vetted since 2010 Top Ranked Site Visit Verified
1982
year founded
$98,792
raised on GlobalGiving
15
years fundraising
14
projects funded
* Amounts in US Dollars

Mission

Orbis' mission is to preserve and restore sight by strengthening the capacity of local partners in their efforts to prevent and treat blindness with the vision that this will lead to a world in which no one is needlessly blind, where quality eye care, education, and treatment are available to every human being.

Project Leaders
Diane Weatherup
Diane Weatherup
Ciara Baumgartner
Ciara Baumgartner
Team
Diane Weatherup, Ciara Baumgartner
Organization Information
20-21 St Patrick's Road
Dalkey
Dublin,, Dublin A96 DV76
Ireland
+353 12788707
Organization Information
20-21 St Patrick's Road
Dalkey
Dublin,, Dublin A96 DV76
Ireland
+353 12788707

Project Reports

Each of GlobalGiving’s nonprofit partners is required to send quarterly donor reports detailing the impact of their work. Here are some of their recent updates:

Reaching Every Family with Sight-Saving Care

By Ciara Baumgartner | Development Manager

Every day, Etheme balances caring for her six children with making pottery to support her family in rural Ethiopia. When her youngest children, 15-month-old Tarike and three-year-old Temesgen,... Read the full report ›

Local Expertise to Protect Children's Sight

By Ciara Baumgartner | Development Manager

Six-year-old Nuhamin and her family had been waiting for the specialist care she needed. Thanks to a recent hospital-based training programme in Hawassa, southern Ethiopia, she was finally able to... Read the full report ›

How Clean Water Helps End Preventable Blindness

By Ciara Baumgartner | Development Manager

Trachoma is the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness, and Ethiopia carries one of the highest burdens globally. Yet blindness from trachoma is preventable. For more than two decades,... Read the full report ›
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