How cutting-edge technology is helping curb the rise in avoidable blindness worldwide City Talk Globally 1.1 billion people live with vision loss and blindness and a shocking 90% of it is avoidable. Sadly, 9 out of 10 of these people live in low-to-middle-income countries with little or no access to eye health care. Orbis, an international sight-loss charity, works to fight avoidable blindness in these regions through hospital-based programmes [...]
Why raising awareness in remote areas saves sight City Talk Andrew Wardle – Programmes Team at Orbis UK I was wearing my Orbis cap and shirt when Lemlem stopped me on the stairs of my hotel and asked if I knew what was wrong with her milky white eye. Immediately, I could see she had a cataract, one that had been developing for a long time. [...]
Glasses designer Tom Davies on why he supports sight-saving charity, Orbis UK City Talk Vaishnavi Kumari, aged 5 from India, after receiving cataract surgery from Orbis. Photo by Geoff Bugbee for Orbis UK
