Huma Mohi-ud-din is a teacher in Pakistan who has been trained to educate pupils in basic eye health © Sightsavers

Last years highlights

Working with our partners in 2009, we helped to:

• Screen 13,358,000 people
• Treat over 9.8 million people for potentially blinding conditions
• Protect 21,796,685 people against river blindness
• Carry out 273,061 sight-restoring cataract operations
• Treat 990,798 people for trachoma
• Train 150,000 eye care workers
• Provide training and support to 7,274 people who are irreversibly blind
• Provided specialist support to 5,919 children in mainstream schools

 

related info

 

• Word & PDF Docs
• Annual Review Highlights 2009