Alcon’s biomedical engineers and technicians have also been sharing their technical skills and knowledge to help our partners operate and maintain equipment and local eye care infrastructure.
Orbites: Celebrating 40 years with Alcon
There is much to celebrate this World Sight Day – including 40 years of support from our corporate partner Alcon.
For four decades, Alcon has been helping us carry out our mission by donating ophthalmic equipment, pharmaceuticals and supplies for the programs we carry out around the world.
Bob Ranck
CEO, Orbis International
Orbis is where we are today thanks to the commitment and generosity of Alcon over the past 40 years. Alcon literally got us off the ground in the very beginning with their first pledge to donate equipment for our Flying Eye Hospital in 1979, and their sponsorship of our first program in Panama in 1982. Since that time, Alcon’s support has been incredible and unwavering, not only through valuable financial support, but also dedicating skills, time and resources.
During the second week of the Flying Eye Hospital’s recent program in Mandalay, Myanmar, we had an in-person opportunity to commemorate this partnership.
Slideshow: Alcon visit our Flying Eye Hospital project in Myanmar
Karen King (Alcon’s SVP of Investor Relations and Communications) and Melissa Thompson (Head of Corporate Responsibility; President of the Alcon Foundation) joined Orbis on the ground for an opportunity to see our work up close. The FEH team was thrilled to have this opportunity to welcome these members of the Alcon team.
As you celebrate World Sight day, we hope you’ll also celebrate this important, long-standing Orbis partnership – and look forward to the continued work we’ll accomplish together in the future.
