Help protect children in Africa from sight loss

Please will you donate to help more children like Happy enjoy a future free from pain and blindness?

In Africa, millions of people suffer from avoidable blindness and sight loss. You can help change this.

Since the 1950s, Sightsavers has been delivering life-changing charity work in Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Nigeria. In the 1960s and 1970s, we extended our programmes to several other African countries. We help protect people’s sight and treat conditions such as trachoma, which can lead to permanent blindness. But we urgently need your support.

By donating today, you could help restore the sight of a child like Happy. In Uganda, six-year-old Happy’s trachoma infection had developed into trichiasis, an advanced form of the disease. It had caused her eyelashes to turn inwards, making every blink painful. She was at risk of losing her sight forever. Sightsavers helped Happy to get the operation she desperately needed, as well as medication to treat the infection.

Together, we can provide urgently needed eye treatments to people like Happy. Your donation could help us reach more people in need and continue our vital work across Africa.

Thanks to the kindness of supporters like you, Happy had the surgery she needed to save her sight and give her the chance of a brighter future.

A small pie chart showing 91% coloured in pink, and 9% coloured in yellow.Where does my donation go?
92% of donations, including donated supplies, support our vital charity work. The remainder helps us grow awareness of Sightsavers and raise more funds for our life-changing projects.

What we achieved together in Africa during 2023

You helped Sightsavers provide more than one million eye examinations

Your support helped to give glasses to more than 30,000 people

You helped us provide more than 16,000 trichiasis operations

Six-year-old Happy from Uganda sits in hospital after eye surgery. She's wearing surgical scrubs and a hat, with surgical stickers on her face.

Our work in Africa

Six-year-old Happy from Uganda sits in hospital after eye surgery. She's wearing surgical scrubs and a hat, with surgical stickers on her face.

Since beginning our work in Africa in 1950, we now work in more than 30 countries across Africa and Asia. Your support is helping children like Happy, who lived with the agony of trachoma day after day, to get the life-changing treatments they need.

How your donation could help prevent sight loss

Eye surgeon Benyamen tests a patient's eyes for trachoma.

Provide eye tests

Your donation could support projects to provide community eye screenings in some of the most remote areas of the world. For many people, this can be the first time they have an eye test.

Melody provides children, lined up in blue school uniform, with medicine to protect them from trachoma at a school.

Train health workers

Your donation could help fund training for staff specialising in eye care. Since 1950, we’ve helped to train more than 3,800 ophthalmic nurses and 1,000 cataract surgeons to treat people.

Happy surrounded by surgeons and medical staff during her trichiasis operation.

Deliver eye operations

Operations for advanced trachoma and other eye conditions can take less than an hour. Your donation could help to train surgeons or provide vital surgical equipment.

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