Orbis UK

Many years before the establishment of the Aumund Foundation, Franz-Walter Aumund was fascinated by the flying eye hospital which he had read about in a newspaper article. As a frequent flyer he spent decades travelling the globe, and was impressed by the idea of bringing an eye clinic with the latest standard of equipment to people who urgently need ophthalmological help, for the time it takes to provide it.

Several years passed, and we started to work with Orbis UK in 2020, but even then we were unable to support the operations on board the Flying Eye Hospital because this was not possible during the pandemic.

Instead the Aumund Foundation supported the REACH programme in Nepal from 2020 to 2022. The Orbis project team visited more than 300,000 children in their homes and schools over this period, in order to detect, treat and to prevent as many problems as possible by early examination.

In 2023 it finally happened. We were one of the large project sponsors of a three-week training and operation mission of the Flying Eye Hospital in Zambia and are now looking forward to an expansion of our partnership.