Sarwar Kausa is one of the many 'lady health workers' we have helped to train in Pakistan © Jamshyd Masud / Sightsavers

Sustainability

We want the effects of our work to be long-lasting. In order to achieve this projects are locally managed by our partners to ensure they are appropriate for the many different cultural settings in which Sightsavers works and that local, legal and administrative systems are complied with.

Our long term intention is that partners will eventually develop their own capacity to fully manage projects and develop sustainable services - enabling Sightsavers to direct its support to new programmes in different geographic areas.

Achievements

 

Working with our partners in 2010, we helped to:


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