(VOVworld) - Orbis International – a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving sight worldwide – is funding several eye care projects in Thua Thien Hue province, most notably the Flying Eye Hospital project in Hue.

Since early 2015 Orbis has provided nearly 210,000 USD for the project with an additional 19,000 USD sourced from the local budget to improve the practice of medicine in Huong Thuy commune, Hue city.

The project aims to train doctors, nurse practitioners through seminars and sharing of experiences, and engineers and technicians via training courses to learn how to maintain and operate modern ophthalmology equipment.

Orbis is also funding a 1 million USD project providing eye care for children in the north central provinces of Vietnam, which will be carried out from now till June 2018 at the Hue Eye and Hue Central hospitals.