Are you seeking to give again this vacation season? Why not do one thing totally different and be part of the Orbis Canada Flight for Sight journey recreation?
Flight for Sight is a 60-minute immersive leisure expertise the place Dave and I host groups competing in journey trivia challenges and interactive video games. It’s the proper team-building occasion for corporations seeking to carry their workforce collectively or you possibly can join individually and be part of an present workforce. Register right here
FedEx and Orbis Flying Eye Hospital
During the course of the occasion, contributors might be entertained by “yours truly” as Microsoft pilot Chris Levesque takes you thru units of live-streamed flight simulation experiences on the state-of-the-art Microsoft Flight Simulator. The flight simulations are precise GPS Satellite imagery.
Participants who participate within the Orbis Flight for Sight occasion may even take a digital tour of the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital. This is a tremendous airplane that flies around the globe serving to these in want. FedEx donated a cargo jet that was reworked right into a state-of-the-art instructing and coaching eye hospital.
Nearly 1 billion individuals around the globe dwell with imaginative and prescient loss or blindness that may very well be prevented or handled if that they had entry to the care that we take so simply with no consideration. Your participation will assist to finish avoidable blindness for these dwelling in love and middle-income nations the place eye care doesn’t exist.
Be there December 1, 2022 – Trivia for a Great Cause
The subsequent Flight for Sight occasion is going on on December 1, 2022. Teams of as much as 12 individuals are required to fundraise not less than $2,000. That’s simply $166.66 per individual. So get your co-workers, household, or buddies collectively for a enjoyable technique to increase cash for a charity! Having bother getting 12 individuals? No Problem. Solo vacationers can be part of an present workforce!
Going Alone? Take a Solo Flight and Join an Existing Team
The December 1, 2022 flight is now open to solo vacationers! There is not any must recruit 11 different buddies, household, or colleagues. Instead, you’ll simply must pay your $25 registration payment, increase the person fundraising minimal of $250 and also you’ll be positioned in a workforce of as much as 12 of your fellow solo journey seekers. How straightforward is that? And you’ll make new travel-loving buddies simply in time for the vacation season.
Register for the December occasion at the moment!
Microsoft Simulator
Throughout the day, there are three totally different hour-long occasions the place groups compete towards one another for factors. The general winners might be introduced on the finish of the ultimate occasion.
The occasions are a lot enjoyable with groups engaged on totally different challenges from “Spot the Difference“, to “Rebus Puzzles” to answering journey trivia. It’s a enjoyable technique to take a look at your journey information and make new buddies. For companies and associations, it’s an amazing team-building train
Not solely that, however all through the competitors, you’ll be capable to see precise satellite tv for pc imagery of Microsoft Flight Simulator as you be part of Captain Levesque on digital flight experiences that take you to the farthest corners of the world.
Flying Eye Hospital
The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital was made attainable by the occasion sponsor FedEx who donated this one-of-a-kind aircraft and reworked it right into a state-of-the-art instructing and coaching eye hospital.
The flying eye hospital travels to half a dozen locations annually geared up with a full medical workforce from greater than 30 nations. Doctors, nurses anesthesiologists, and biomedical engineers volunteer their time to share their experience with native medical professionals.
The flying eye hospital’s purpose is three-fold. To assist deal with eye issues that may very well be simply cured if solely individuals had entry to medical professionals, increase consciousness of eye well being with native governments, and to coach native medical professionals.
1 Billion People Live with Avoidable Eye Disease
Sadly, 90% of the 1 billion individuals dwelling with avoidable eye illness reside in low and middle-income nations. There is the place the flying eye hospital grow to be so essential. Not solely does the volunteer workers deal with eye illness, nevertheless it additionally creates alternatives, simulation coaching, and sharing of experience with native medical professionals.
The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital additionally generates consciousness about eye well being in low and middle-income nations and opens dialogue with native governments and ministries of well being to assist change international eye well being insurance policies and priorities.
Flight For Sight Helping to End Avoidable Blindness
The Flight for Sight occasion is close to and expensive to our hearts and we’re honored to be again as hosts of the 2022 occasion. We have a lot enjoyable assembly individuals from around the globe and sharing our love for journey for an essential trigger.
Flight for Sight additionally provides you the prospect to see a few of the best wonders of the world in a method that few individuals ever can – all in 60 minutes and all from the consolation and security of residence.
But it’s about extra than simply the unimaginable view. Flight for Sight is an immersive and interesting leisure and team-building expertise. Throughout the live-streamed flight simulation expertise, your workforce of as much as 12 individuals will earn factors in a sequence of problem-solving challenges and skill-testing trivia competitions that can take a look at your collective mind energy and inventive pondering.
So don’t delay, be part of us on December 1 for the flight for Sight Event right here.
FedEx National Event Sponsor
Since 2009, FedEx has been the National Event Sponsor of Orbis’s different annual fundraising occasion, Plane Pull for Sight. We attended Plane Pull for Sight this 12 months and it’s one enjoyable occasion! Imagine having a tug of struggle with a cargo jet airplane! Events happen in Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver. Start planning your workforce for subsequent 12 months’s aircraft pull proper now!
These occasions have raised over 2 million {dollars} to assist finish avoidable blindness by funding the Flying Eye Hospital packages.
Microsoft Flight Simulator
Fly around the globe from the consolation of your house. You’ll see first hand what its wish to fly the Microsoft Flight Simulator. And you need to use it your self with the X-Box Game Pass.
You’ll be capable to take a look at your flying expertise from small planes to broad physique jets as you soar above the far corners of the world. During the occasion, you’ll get to see an skilled pilot in motion!
We hope that you’ll open your hearts and wallets to lift funds for this essential trigger. It’s a enjoyable occasions and it’s much more enjoyable when you recognize you might be performing some good on the planet.