Cindy Crawford and her family at the screening The Hospital in the Sky, a documentary about Orbis International’s Flying Eye Hospital.

Thursday, Omega hosted the premiere of The Hospital in the Sky, a documentary about Orbis International’s Flying Eye Hospital at the New York Historical Society.

The film narrator is Omega brand ambassador Cindy Crawford, who attended the event with her family and was joined Omega president Stephen Urquhart and Jenny Hourihan, CEO of Orbis International.

Orbis International is a non-profit organisation dedicated to providing high-quality eye care and treating avoidable blindness around the globe. It also trains local health care professionals in some of the world’s remotest regions. Orbis operates the Flying Eye Hospital, a specially-converted DC-10 jumbo jet, a fully-equipped mobile ophthalmic hospital and teaching facility.

Orbis Flying Eye Hospital

The numbers behind Orbis are staggering. Since its foundation, in 1982, they have enhanced the skills of 325,000 eye care personnel and provided medical and optical treatment to more than 23.3 million people in 92 countries.

Orbis volunteer pilots fly the plane and its international medical team, also volunteers, to developing countries to teach sight-saving skills. Local patients receive free treatment during this training.

The documentary, presented in New York, is a 48 minutes joint production between Omega and Orbis. It presents Cindy Crawford and her daughter Kaia’s day aboard the Flying Eye Hospital in Trujillo, Peru.

This is the second film co-produced by OMEGA and Orbis International. The first, Through Their Eyes, featured Daniel Craig who visited the Flying Eye Hospital when it was in Mongolia. It is a beautifully shot film about truly inspiring people and their commitment to a great cause. You can see the full movie, about 26 minutes, on YouTube: http://youtu.be/6XVSvfOd-Mg. An eye-opening experience, guaranteed!

I hope, Omega will post the full movie with Cindy Crawford too, for now here is the trailer:

More about the partnership between Omega and Orbis at http://omegawatches.com/orbis