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The green hills of #Bangladesh are home to 167 commercial 🫖 tea estates, including some of the largest active tea plantations in the world. The hard-working Bangladeshis who pick this tea are generally low-paid and face poor living conditions, including a lack of access to quality health care facilities. That includes insufficient eye health care resources in tea-growing regions, which leaves tea pickers and their families vulnerable to preventable or treatable vision loss. Orbis International has been working in Bangladesh since 1985 providing eye care and eye care training for communities around the country. With assistance from our generous supporters, we recently teamed up with local eye care partner, Nayan, to address the eye health issues of tea garden workers and their families in one of the country’s traditional tea-growing areas. Learn more! https://lnkd.in/dYBSmvSZ

Our Flying Eye Hospital project in Bangladesh has successfully concluded with local eye care teams improving their skills and expertise under the guidance of world-leading Volunteer Faculty. Thanks to our sponsors and supporters, local eye care professionals received world-class training using state-of-the-art simulation equipment, and more than 40 children and adults received sight-saving surgery. Learn more! https://lnkd.in/g_6GNfpW

2024 was a busy year for the Canadian Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases / Réseau Canadien pour les MTNs. Find out what we've been up to in our Year in Review here 👉🏼 https://lnkd.in/gzD6F9U7. As we ring 🔔 in a New Year🎉, we look forward to another great year of NTD advocacy, starting strong with #WorldNTDDay on January 30th! Wishing you all a wonderful year in 2025! #100PercentCommitted to #BeatNTDs Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases Youth Combating NTDs Bridges to Development Effect Hope Orbis Canada Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Canada Results Canada Cooperation Canada Canadian Partnership for Women and Children's Health (CanWaCH) Canadian Association for Global Health InfoNTD Sightsavers

Thanks to the Orbis community, thousands of people in this underserved region of Bangladesh can look forward to a future of healthy sight and higher earnings. Learn how Orbis recently teamed up with local eye care partner, Nayan, to address the eye health issues of tea garden workers and their families in one of the country’s traditional tea-growing areas. https://lnkd.in/gjtqDgNw

Happy Holidays from all of us at Orbis Canada!

As we enter the last days of 2024, let’s take a moment to celebrate the power of collective action! ICYMI: Our WGH chapters around the world led incredible campaigns for #16Days of Activism against gender-based violence. From Burkina Faso to Cameroon, India, Kenya, the Lusophone Community, Nigeria, and Zambia, each campaign spotlighted the unique challenges faced by women health workers in their regions—and the solutions they’re championing. 🌍✨ 📢 Missed any of these campaigns? It’s not too late to catch up and get inspired! https://bit.ly/3P7F8WE #WomenInGH #16Days #GenderEquity #WomenInLeadership Women in Global Health Nigeria; Women in Global Health Zambia; Women in Global Health Burkina Faso; Women in Global Health - India; Women in Global Health - Lusophone community

Introducing our 2025 WIO Board of Directors - this talented group of women leaders is excited to bring our organization to new heights! #WhyWIO #womeninophthalmology #womeninmedicine #ophthalmology

A new training project to bring life-changing eye care to children with strabismus—a misalignment of the eyes that can make learning and socializing difficult—has just wrapped in Lusaka, Zambia. Learn more about this project and how it's changing lives! https://lnkd.in/gsZNuv3c

Meet Sheetal Pundir, PhD, a third year Resident at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Dr. Pundir joined us on our recent Flying Eye Hospital project and received rave reviews.

Recently, our board member and President of the Orbis Future Vision Leaders, Dominique Geoffrion, MD, CM, PhD, took part in an Orbis Flying Eye Hospital program in Bangladesh. Dr. Geoffrion Served as an Associate Ophthalmologist and led the simulation training in cataract surgery at the local hospital (Chittagong Eye Infirmary and Training Complex - CEITC) For her, witnessing the Orbis team members interact with such the camaraderie, dedication, and collective effort to improve global eye health was profoundly inspiring.