Alieu Jallow, a pupil at Bakoteh Lower Basic School in The Gambia, came first in his year at English, despite being blind © Jenny Matthews/Sightsavers

How We Are Governed

Sightsavers Ireland was set up in November 2003. It is a company limited by guarantee which is a standard company structure for a charity. Sightsavers Ireland has charitable tax status as designated by the Revenue Commissioners. The organisation is independent of Sightsavers International but works closely with it across a range of areas.

The charity's governing authority, also known as the Members, meet every year at the Annual General Meeting. Reporting to the Members is the Board of Directors who meet every quarter. The Chief Executive reports to the Board of Directors.

Below is the full list of Members, Directors are indicated by an asterisk (*)

Chairman - Pat Farrell, Chief Executive, Irish Banking Federation*
Adelaide Addo-Fening, Director of Programmes, Sightsavers*
Joan Burton TD
Caroline Casey, Kanchi
Simon Coveney TD
Howard Dalzell, Programme Director (Retired), Concern*
Frank Fell, Chief Executive (Retired), Licensed Vintners Association*
Fintan Glynn, Development Director, AEGON Scottish Equitable International*
Patricia Hallahan, Director, Dementia Services Information & Development Centre
Mary Moorhead, Director, Mater Foundation
Michael Murphy, Director (Retired), Irish Distillers*
Fiona O'Malley
Mary O'Rourke
Gerry O'Sullivan, Director, Q4PR*
Sightsavers (Corporate Member)

Achievements

 

Working with our partners last year, we helped to:

• Protect over 23 million people against river blindness
• Perform over 270,000 sight-restoring cataract operations
• Treat over a million people with antibiotics for trachoma