Can you help a child in Mongolia achieve their full potential?

One doctor gave her then five-year-old son Nyamdorj glasses, but it didn’t help much. That's because this little boy had cataracts in both his eyes, and only surgery would save his sight.

Three years later, his vision was only getting worse. When Nyamdorj was eight, Tuya heard that our Flying Eye Hospital was coming to her country’s capital city of Ulaanbaatar — and she knew she had to make it there. Tuya and her son traveled by bus for 24 hours across more than half of their country.

Thanks to your generous support, Nyamdorj received surgery in one eye. But because the first surgery must heal before the second surgery can be performed, Tuya’s worries are not yet gone.

She is anxious to know if her precious son will have the cataract removed from his other eye and have full, healthy vision for the first time in his life.

With your support Nyamdorj will be able to receive the second surgery he needs to have his vision fully restored and achieve his full potential in life.

Your support means we can fight the epidemic of avoidable blindness in Mongolia and 17 other countries around the world.

We’ve been working in Mongolia since 1989, when our Flying Eye Hospital first landed there to train local eye doctors. Our work is focused on increasing the country’s access to high-quality and affordable eye care, especially for children.

Thanks to supporters like you we've been able to screen more than 97,000 Mongolian children — including over 1,000 babies at risk for retinopathy of prematurity, a blinding condition where a premature infant’s eyes do not develop properly.

And our Flying Eye Hospital project in Mongolia last year trained many local doctors and other eye health professionals — which means more children in this vast country will have access to quality vision care.

One of the doctors who has benefited from such training is qualified cataract ophthalmologist Dr. Enkhutshin. You can find out more how she is now sharing her new-found eye care skills with local doctors.

You can help us make bright futures possible for babies born prematurely and kids like Nyamdorj who are suffering with blinding cataracts.

Tuya is so grateful to you for giving her son the promise of vision. She says: “He wants to be a teacher when he grows up. All I hope is that he will be healthy and find his true way. I am really thankful for everything Orbis is doing! My son is the luckiest child to have this operation.

We hope their story inspires you to give the gift of sight to more children in Mongolia and all around the world.

A big thank you to all our wonderful supporters who help transform lives every day. We can't do it without your help.