Ryanair announces major fund raising drive with Orbis for World sight Day

Ryanair has announced a major fund raising drive for its adopted charity, ORBIS International, on the occasion of World Sight Day.

ORBIS is known worldwide for its famous Flying Eye Hospital, a DC 10 aircraft, which operates as a fully equipped eye hospital, providing hands on training for local doctors and nurses in some of the world’s poorest nations.

For World Sight Day, Ryanair has organised collections on all flights out of Dublin and Stansted airports, matching euro for euro all donations made.

To launch the fund raising drive for ORBIS, Michael O’Leary, who was sponsored by Ryanair staff to dress up in drag to help raise funds for ORBIS, said: “ORBIS is a charity which really makes a difference through its invaluable work in fighting preventable blindness in the developing world and everyone here in Ryanair is delighted to contribute to such a good cause. Ryanair will match euro for euro all donations by our staff and made by our passengers to ORBIS on World Sight Day and we urge everyone to give whatever they can”.

Welcoming this fund raising drive for World Sight Day, Chairman of ORBIS Ireland, Maurice Cox said: “Through Ryanair’s fund raising drive, we hope to raise €30,000. This money really does make a difference and with passenger donations we expect to be able to help restore sight to 1,200 people whose lives and futures will be completely transformed.”