- How we Help
- Prevention and Cure
- Working with Blindness
- Education
- Community Development
- Advocacy
- Global Advocacy
- National advocacy
- Disability
- Regional advocacy
- Current Campaigns
- Millennium Development Goals
- European Commission Survey: People in Europe continue to support overseas aid
- Ireland’s EU presidency
- Post-2015 development agenda
- Include disabled people in international development
- Act NOW on 2015 Campaign
- Include all children in quality primary and secondary education
- Include the neglected tropical diseases in the MDGS
- Advocacy Successes
- World Sight Day
- Where we work
- Asia
- Caribbean
- East Africa
- Southern Africa
- West Africa
- Burkina Faso
- Benin
- Liberia
- Mali
- Nigeria
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- The Gambia
- Togo
- Cameroon
- Ghana
- Protected in Guinea
- Guinea Bissau
- Guinea Conakry
- Our Successes
- Achievements
- People we've helped
- Eliminating the problem
- Demonstrating success
- Village Vision
- Sorufa's Story
- Mohammad's New Business
- Protecting a Child's Future
- Restoring Sight in Bangladesh
- Top of the Class
- Africa without river blindness
- Hakim's Story
- Reaching more children
- Abdoulie's Story
- Talking to Angeline Akai
- Mama's Independance
- Lasoi's Story
- Saving Sight
- Kaduna State
- Caught in Time
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Our Work in Zambia. © Sightsavers
Zambia
Zambia is one of the poorest countries in Southern Africa. Three-quarters of its population live below the World Bank poverty threshold of $1 a day.
Sightsavers in Zambia
Sightsavers has been supporting eye care services in Zambia since the 1950s when founder Sir John Wilson visited the Luapula province, which is notorious for its high level of blindness.
Together with our partners, we are training local people to become eye care workers, as well as treating and preventing cataract, childhood blindness and other eye conditions.
In the future we hope to expand our support countrywide, as well as starting up educational projects to ensure blind and visually impaired children can go to mainstream schools.
Being blind is hard. Being blind in Zambia is harder
Keeping the future in sight for young and old
