Charity

Eye care charity Orbis is urging parents to take their child to the optometrist ahead of the new academic year

Dance Dosti is a multi-lingual, dance-on-demand platform for people with sight loss

Actors, poets and authors with African heritage are lending their support to the campaign

Larry Benjamin, retired ophthalmic consultant and an overseas volunteer with Orbis for 16 years, on scaling up the charity’s remote training capabilities in light of COVID-19

The money has been awarded by the Coronavirus Community Support Fund

Kashinath Bhoosnurmath, VP of international programmes at Operation Eyesight in Hyderabad, tells OT  why governments and NGOs need to work together to avoid a “looming sight crisis”

Sumrana Yasmin, global technical lead on refractive error at Sightsavers, tells OT  about the charity’s mission to ensure that eye care is included as part of the global COVID-19 recovery

Reducing impact of sight loss by 1% could save the UK economy billions by the end of the decade, the charity has revealed

The charity is making an open call for donations to ensure that its core services can continue