Sightsavers Staff celebrating our partnership with Comic Relief

Red Nose Day

We're thrilled to announce that ‘sight' has been chosen as a key theme for Comic Relief's Red Nose Day 2011 fundraising extravaganza!

Being part of Red Nose Day will really help raise the profile of our work, and our three-year partnership with Comic Relief will raise vital funds for our projects in Africa. A top-secret celebrity has already visited some of our sight-saving work in Uganda to make some appeal films, which will be broadcast during the Red Nose Day 2011 Campaign, which culminates on Friday 18 March. There has been another high profile visit to our work in Zambia which will also be televised. Watch this space!

To be chosen as a Comic Relief partner is great testament to the quality and need for our work! We will keep our website updated with all the news about this exciting partnership.

Achievements

 

In the last sixty years Sightsavers has supported:

• Over seven million operations to restore sight
• The distribution of 150 million Mectizan® treatments to prevent river blindness.
• The training of nearly 500,000 primary eye care workers
• 4.4 million refractive error treatments
• Rehabilitation training for 91,000 blind people