Guangzhou, China, October 28, 2016 /Xinwengao.com/ - For Their Eyes Only charity ride has kicked off in China. Up to 20 riders from AccorHotels Greater China and partner organizations started the journey from Pullman Zhuhai this morning.

The team will ride 350 kilometers in the coming three and a half days with stops in counties of Heshan and Sihui and arrive at Sofitel Guangzhou Sunrich during noon time on Oct.31.

This charity campaign aims to support Stay for Brightness corporate social responsibility programme partnered between AccorHotels and Orbis in Greater China. The proceeds from the charity event will be donated to NGO Orbis to help subsidize the various projects to help children living in rural China to regain their eyesight.

About AccorHotels
AccorHotels is a world-leading travel & lifestyle group and digital innovator offering unique experiences in more than 4,000 hotels, resorts and residences, as well as in over 2,600 of the finest private homes around the globe. The group has been in China market for over 30 years and now has over 180 operating hotels in more than 70 cities in the region with portfolio including internationally renowned luxury brands as Raffles, Fairmont, Sofitel Legend, Sofitel, MGallery by Sofitel, Pullman and Swissôtel, midscale brands as Novotel and Mercure, popular economy brands including ibis and ibis Styles, as well as regional brands such as Grand Mercure and The Sebel, covering a full spectrum of markets.

About Orbis

Orbis is a nonprofit humanitarian organization that works in developing countries to save sight worldwide. Orbis prevents and treats blindness through hands-on training, public health education, improved access to quality eye care, and partnerships with local health care organizations in an effort to eliminate avoidable blindness. To learn more about Orbis, please visit www.orbis.org.

About Stay for Brightness

“Stay for Brightness” is a three-year corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme run between 2014 and 2016. Developed and launched by AccorHotels in Greater China in conjunction with Orbis, the programme aims to support Orbis to prevent avoidable blindness by building a comprehensive pediatric treatment network in Greater China for children in need of affordable quality eye care services and training facilities for ophthalmologist and specialist doctors through donations in cash and in kind.

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Hong Kong, China, September 27, 2016 /Xinwengao.com/ - AccorHotels supported the Orbis Darkness To Go charity dinner in Hong Kong on September 25. For the second year in succession, the group’s properties in Hong Kong joined forces in supporting this very successful event. The participating hotels were The Park Lane Hong Kong, a Pullman Hotel, Novotel Hong Kong Century, Novotel Hong Kong Citygate, Novotel Hong Kong Nathan Road Kowloon, ibis Hong Kong Central & Sheung Wan and ibis Hong Kong North Point.

This very special theme event took place at Novotel Hong Kong Century. More than 200 guests attended and the evening raised over HK$180,000 for charity.

This dinner offered participants the unusual experience of relying on only four of their five senses – sound, taste, touch and smell – as their eyes were blindfolded throughout the meal. The aim of the event was to do more than fundraising as it was also intended to help participants reach a better understanding of the challenges faced by the visually-impaired.

“This is a doubly meaningful event,” said Michel Molliet, Chief Operating Officer, AccorHotels Greater China.  “I am sure that the evening has given us all a greater awareness of the daily challenges facing the visually-impaired. We have enjoyed a novel and thought provoking experience in addition to the highly satisfying fund raising aspect of the evening. I’d like to thank everyone involved in making this event such a success. Our collaboration with Orbis is part of AccorHotels’ long-standing commitment to give back to local communities.”

“This is our fourth Darkness to Go dinner. With the launch of the third generation Flying Eye Hospital (FEH), we believe the more enhanced medical and communication capabilities of this new Flying Eye Hospital will enable us to create better futures for the visually impaired. In addition to that, we have kick-started its first sight-saving mission in Shenyang, China in September. ” said Mary Lau, Orbis Director of Development, China and Hong Kong. “I would like to grasp this opportunity to express my very special thanks to AccorHotels and its properties in Hong Kong for their generous sponsorship on the event for joining us to eliminate avoidable blindness.”

The Darkness to Go dinner was part of the group’s continuing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme aimed at preventing avoidable blindness among children in rural China.

Since June 2014 AccorHotels and Orbis have collaborated in Stay for Brightness CSR programme. Designed and implemented with the aim of developing comprehensive eye care for children, this programme helps to make high quality ophthalmological services accessible and affordable for disadvantaged children.

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Shanghai, China, September 8, 2016 /Xinwengao.com/ - AccorHotels has shown its support for the recent launch of the new Orbis Flying Eye Hospital, the world’s only accredited teaching hospital aboard an MD-10 aircraft, in Shenyang, China. The recent arrival of the third-generation of Flying Eye Hospital in the Liaoning province aims to provide eye care professionals with an intensive three-week regional ophthalmic training in Shenyang. Hosted by He University Eye Hospital (HUEH), a leading eye hospital in Shenyang, the programme will strengthen the hospital’s capacity to deliver subspecialized eye care services, while creating well-functioning training models (i.e. train-the-trainers) for its residents.

Orbis will conduct a series of events and symposia with HUEH and international speakers from September 5 to 23, 2016 in Sofitel Shenyang Lido. The hotel is also the venue sponsor for its opening ceremony on September 6 and will be supporting the various activities organised by Orbis and their hospital partners during the three-week event.

This support is part of the Stay for Brightness three-year corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme launched by AccorHotels in partnership with Orbis since 2014 with the aims to educate the community on preventive eye diseases and blindness in rural China.

“AccorHotels is delighted to work closely with the various programme launches on eye care services provided by Orbis to better educate and facilitate the needs of the rural communities in Greater China,” said Michel Molliet, COO, AccorHotels Greater China. “This reinforces our long-term commitment for CSR in giving back to the local communities. It is great to be part of this project to play a meaningful role in raising awareness in preventable blindness.”

This year, AccorHotels continues its support for the Stay for Brightness programme in partnership with Orbis to build a comprehensive pediatric treatment network in Greater China for children in need of affordable quality eye care services and training facilities for ophthalmologist and specialist doctors through donations in cash and in kind.

For the remaining quarter of the programme, a number of fund-raising campaigns are already in place to include the “Darkness To Go” blackout charity dinner in Hong Kong that will take place later this month and a larger scale charity bike ride event “For Their Eyes Only” to take place in October this year.

“We deeply appreciate the sponsorship of AccorHotels Greater China to the first MD-10 Flying Eye Hospital programme in Shenyang, as well as the Stay for Brightness project,” said George Smith, Director of Orbis North Asia. “With their generous support we are able to continue our blindness prevention works in China.”

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Shanghai, China, April 7, 2016 /Xinwengao.com/ - 2016 sees AccorHotels continue the Stay for Brightness programme, a three-year corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative, in partnership with Orbis. Launched in 2014, the programme helps to prevent blindness and saving eyesight of children in rural China. The objective of the programme is to build a comprehensive pediatric treatment network in China for children in need of affordable quality eye care services and training facilities for eye specialists and doctors through donations in kind or in cash.

So far, the funds raised by AccorHotels have brought greater awareness of the Orbis programme in the provinces of Heilongjiang and Gansu. In Heilongjiang, AccorHotels has sponsored 75 pairs of spectacles for underprivileged children and provided 1,005 preventive programmes to educate parents and teachers on eye care. In Gansu, AccorHotels has provided surgery subsidies for eight children with various forms of eye diseases.

Earlier this year, Michel Molliet, COO for AccorHotels Greater China, said, “This programme reinforces our commitment to corporate social responsibility and giving back to local communities. Thanks to the initiative shown by individual hotels, the programme got off to a great start, successfully promoting awareness and raising money to help alleviate the widespread eye problems in rural areas.”

Darkness To Go Dinner in Hong Kong was one of the CSR fund raising initiatives organized by AccorHotels together with various charity walks and an open golf event in Beijing. In 2014 and 2015, Stay for Brightness fund-raising campaigns were major focuses during AccorHotels’ Solidarity Week where hotel staff were encouraged to support an association that helps the underprivileged within their local community.

Every minute, a child goes blind somewhere in the world and 80% of them do not have access to proper eye care. George Smith, Director of Orbis North Asia, said, “Orbis is honored to partner with AccorHotels for the Stay for Brightness programme again this year. The programme has not only provided funds to prevent and treat eye diseases in young children, but also raised significant awareness surrounding childhood blindness. We look forward to a fruitful relationship with AccorHotels to continue improving lives of the underprivileged.”

This year, AccorHotels Greater China will continue to seek co-operation and support for the programme by involving hotel staff in charity walks and various charity sales as well as other events. Hotel clusters are encouraged to organize themed fund-raising events that include charity bike rides targeted to involve some 15 AccorHotels general managers, to raise funds for Orbis. Supplier engagement will be an important part of the programme.

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