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ORBIS Ireland — <br>Saving Sight, Rebuilding Lives

ORBIS Ireland is a charity working to eliminate preventable blindness and restore sight to rural villagers in the poorest regions of southern Ethiopia by 2015. Over a third of children in Ethiopia are affected by trachoma, a blinding, yet completely preventable eye disease. If left untreated this slowly progressive and painful disease robs its victims of their sight, their childhoods and ultimately their lives.

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		ORBIS Challenge Events 2013 Click here to find out what ORBIS Ireland is up to in 2013. Why not join ORBIS in Addis Ababa for the Great Ethiopian Run, Brittas Bay for the Sporting Proud Triathlon or join one of our challenge cycles? Read more...

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		Ethiopia Soundslide Online Come to southern Ethiopia with photojournalist Raul Vasquez to see how ORBIS is protecting people there from a blinding disease called trachoma. Read more...

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		Read our blog! Subscribe to our blog and receive first-person accounts of ORBIS's sight-saving work worldwide! We anticipate a new blog post at least once a week. You can access the blog at blog.orbis.org. Read more...