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Long-Term Partners
Long-term donations such as major multiyear cash grants and critically needed gifts-in-kind are another simple and effective way in which your company can help ORBIS save sight worldwide. The following local organizations are among those already pledging their support. If you think your company can be of similar assistance, please feel free to add your name to the list.
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Cathay Pacific Hong Kong's leading airline has been generously donating free airline tickets to help our flight crews and medical volunteers travel to and from our sight-saving programs. Cathay Pacific is also an enthusiastic provider of prizes for our annual raffle.
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Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company Limited Every two years, ORBIS brings its Flying Eye Hospital to Hong Kong for a two-week visit, during which time staff meet donors and promote eye care. Each time the Flying Eye Hospital touches down, HAECO generously donates not only a parking bay but full use of its support facilities and aircraft logistics services. During its recent stay with HAECO, the Flying Eye Hospital welcomed more than 6,000 visitors and raised more than HK$6 million for its sight-saving programs. These are just a few of the many reasons why ORBIS considers HAECO to be one of its most treasured corporate partners.
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Kee Wah Bakery The renowned Kee Wah Bakery has generously donated its legendary mini-mooncakes and sponsored sales of tins of tea on behalf of ORBIS for more than six years . In bringing together people from all walks of life, Kee Wah's generosity has ensured the mooncake sale has become a much-loved tradition on our annual fundraising calendar.
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Manhattan The ORBIS MANHATTAN credit card donates 0 .3 percent of the value of all transactions and 50 percent of its cardholders' annual membership fees to ORBIS. The company also allow us to include sight-saving updates in its cardholders' monthly statements .
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch The primary corporate sponsor of ORBIS' annual Hong Kong 'Walk for Sight' since 2000, Bank of America Merrill Lynch has helped raise more than HK$6 million on behalf of our work. The company eagerly encourages its staff to participate in the walk and makes a matching donation that doubles all funds they raise through sponsorship. Non-walking Bank of America Merrill Lynch staffers have raised still more funds for ORBIS by manning the face-painting stalls on the annual walk.
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Standard Chartered Bank The SCB-established ORBIS International Endowment Fund has been providing long-term financial support for our medical initiatives since 1992 . In 2003, SCB strengthened its ties with ORBIS with the launch of the “Seeing Is Believing” global community fundraising project on behalf of China's blind population.
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Sun Hung Kai Properties The Hong Kong property giant provides our Hong Kong operation with its office premises free of charge . Equivalent to a donation of hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, their kindness has helped us transform the lives of countless blind people who otherwise might never have been able to see again.
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Texon Media
This outdoor media specialist donates free advertising space that enables ORBIS to build awareness and raise funds for our sight-saving efforts. Their thoughtfulness ensures we can regularly update the public on our progress in the battle against blindness via advertisements placed in bus shelters and on tunnel billboards.
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Time and Fortune magazines
Each of these highly popular publications provides us with free advertising space that enables us to heighten people's awareness of blindness-related issues. They have succeeded in generating valuable support for our sight-saving efforts.
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| Global sponsors By working closely with ORBIS, global sponsors such as Alcon Laboratories, Inc., and FedEx play a vital role in maximizing the effectiveness of public awareness programs, education campaigns and other special events .
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