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Three women discuss gender-based violence at a workshop in Uganda.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Women and girls with disabilities face a higher risk of gender-based violence, yet they are often prevented from receiving support due to inaccessible services.

November 2023

Blogs / Fighting disease /

Sightsavers’ Roland Bougma shares what action needs to be taken to ensure the disease is eliminated as a public health problem globally.

November 2023

In a village in Mozambique, two people in blue polo shirts hold clipboards and talk to members of the local community.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

We spoke to Dominic Haslam, Sightsavers’ director of policy and programme strategy, about the launch of our second Inclusive Data Charter Action Plan and how it reaffirms our commitment to inclusive data.

November 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

There is compelling evidence that improving access to contraception can reduce mortality and high-risk pregnancies, improve child health and increase protection against sexually transmitted infections.

September 2023

Vision technician Ruth Zeo points to an eye chart during an eye screening

Blogs / Eye health /

Liberia's National Eye Health Policy will ensure eye health is a priority and help strengthen the wider health system by developing a sustainable, inclusive eye care service.

September 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

As learners with disabilities are disproportionately affected by global crises such as climate change, we're urging governments to build more resilient education systems for everyone.

September 2023

Blogs / Women and girls /

The event served as a platform for myself and other Sightsavers colleagues to engage in discussions about how to dismantle barriers and tackle the obstacles impeding progress around women’s rights.

September 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Five years since the creation of the Inclusive Data Charter, we’re updating our goals and commitments on inclusive data. So what are our key learnings?

July 2023

An eye health worker looks at images on a laptop during a trachoma training session.

Blogs / Fighting disease /

As even more countries get closer to eliminating trachoma, a new challenge is emerging: how to keep the health workforce well-trained on identifying signs of the disease.

July 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

In my years as a disability advocate, I’ve learned that getting angry needs to be accompanied by getting active. We wanted to advise organisations on how to do better to include women and girls with disabilities.

July 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers’ Joseph Mensah shares four key learnings from a SBC programme in Ghana that aims to reduce stigma around disability, and how they'll inform our future SBC work.

June 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers’ Cathy Stephen shares what we've learned from embedding inclusive, accessible social behaviour change processes in some of our recent projects in East and West Africa.

June 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers’ Peter Anomah-Kordieh Kwasi shares successes and what we learned from the Ghana Somubi Dwumadie participation project, which Sightsavers supported as a partner to improve the lives of people with disabilities.

June 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Through Ghana Somubi Dwumadie, Sightsavers’ Diane Kingston delivered training that will help protect and promote effective mental health provision and human rights in Ghana.

June 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers’ Simon Brown shares how organisations like Sightsavers can influence labour markets to be more inclusive of people with disabilities in decent employment.

June 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers’ Saleck Ould Dah and Ujala Sarfaraz highlight two key issues around disability inclusion that are hampering efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

June 2023

An eye health worker checks a man's eyes for signs of trachoma.

Blogs / Fighting disease /

Sightsavers’ Boubacar Morou Dicko shares the obstacles Mali faced on the road to eliminating trachoma, and how the country was able to overcome them.

May 2023

Sightsavers CEO CAroline Harper during her TED Talk, standing in front of large red letters spelling TED.

Blogs / Fighting disease /

In 2018, Sightsavers CEO Caroline Harper took to the TED stage to talk about the importance of eliminating trachoma. Since then, 14 million people have been protected from the disease, but further progress hangs in the balance.

April 2023

Amina smiles as she covers one of her eyes with her hand.

Blogs / Eye health /

Sightsavers’ Edwin Maleko shares the impact of an inclusive eye health programme on communities and eye care services in Singida and Morogoro.

March 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers’ Laurène Leclercq shares successes from an award-winning project in Cameroon and Senegal that’s supporting people with disabilities to participate in all aspects of political life.

March 2023

Sightsavers staff member Mercia embraces programme participant Maria. They're both smiling broadly.

Blogs / Women and girls /

On International Women’s Day, on 8 March, we’re calling for health care to be accessible and inclusive for women and girls.

February 2023

Blogs / Education /

How an evaluation tool to assess children’s development has been adapted for young children with disabilities in Kenya.

February 2023

Blogs / Education /

Sightsavers’ Liesbeth Roolvink and Gillian Mackay share learnings from the SMILE project in Nigeria, where a new questionnaire is being used in schools to assess children’s educational needs.

February 2023

A group photo of people involved in the Ghana Somubi Dwumadie programme.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers’ Peter Anomah-Kordieh Kwasi shares the journey that led to the establishment of a parliamentary caucus that champions disability issues.

November 2022

Blogs / Education /

Sightsavers’ Mariana Rudge shares how world leaders at the Transforming Education Summit responded to our call to take action on inclusive education.

October 2022

A young boy sits at a desk in a classroom, writing in an exercise book. A teacher stands next to him offering guidance.

Blogs / Education /

Sightsavers’ Liesbeth Roolvink shares the work we’re doing in programme countries to help transform education systems so that all children can go to school.

October 2022

An older man talks to a younger man, who is holding a tablet computer. They are sitting in a hospital waiting room.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers' Tichafara Chisaka explains how the campaign aims to transform data in the development community and why it closely aligns with our inclusion work.

September 2022

Queen Elizabeth's coffin is driven in a black hearse covered in flowers, flanked by Queens Guards wearing bearskins and full red military uniforms, plus officials in dark suits.

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“I was at the funeral to represent Sightsavers to honour our departed patron, on behalf of the people we serve, the supporters who make this possible and all our staff across the world.”

September 2022

Nora teaches numbers to pre-school children. A child using a wheelchair sits on her left.

Blogs / Education /

Sightsavers’ inclusive education policy officer Takyiwa Danso explains why we’re calling on global leaders to protect the rights of children with disabilities.

September 2022

A man sits on a stationary motorbike with Saio on the backseat. They are both wearing helmets and surgical masks.

Blogs / Education /

Sightsavers’ Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame shares why inclusion and diversity must be at the heart of discussions at the UN's Transforming Education Summit.

September 2022

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Blogs

Collaborating to improve gender-based violence services

The world is making progress on eliminating lymphatic filariasis – yet we urgently need to finish the work

Lifting the rock on inclusive data: Sightsavers and the Inclusive Data Charter

Improving contraceptive choices and bodily autonomy for women and girls with disabilities

How do you rebuild a health system after decades of instability?

How inclusive education can create a more equal and sustainable future

A leap in the right direction: takeaways from the Women Deliver conference

Inclusive data and Sightsavers: an ongoing journey

A good problem: why new training methods are needed to eliminate trachoma

First anger, then action: why you should sign the Feminist Accessibility Protocol

Social behaviour change: a game-changer to reduce stigma

Inclusive, accessible social behaviour change: what it is and how to do it

“In Ghana, the work we began on disability inclusion will continue”

How we’re championing mental health and human rights in Ghana

Why disability-inclusive employment benefits all of us

Why disability rights are integral to the Sustainable Development Goals

How Mali overcame three big challenges and eliminated trachoma

My TED talk helped to protect millions of people from trachoma. Now you can help make history

Lessons from the Boresha Macho eye health programme in Tanzania

How we’re transforming political participation in Cameroon and Senegal

International Women’s Day: our call for inclusive health care

Making assessments more accessible for children with disabilities

On data and disability: piloting the Child Functioning Module in Nigerian schools

A parliamentary caucus on disability issues in Ghana is possible!

Did world leaders do their homework to transform education?

Transforming education: how we’re doing our homework too

Data Values campaign: why we must act now to create a fair data future

“A day I’ll remember all my life”: observations from the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II

Transforming Education Summit: our call for world leaders

We must include students with disabilities in education transformation