Blogs

A lab scientist in Nigeria examines samples under a microscope.
Blogs / Fighting disease /

How our research could help more than 50 million women

Sightsavers researchers are working to understand how we can care for women with female genital schistosomiasis, a devastating disease that affects millions of women in Africa.

June 2024
Patience from Liberia wearing her new glasses, whilst standing next to her mother, betty.
Blogs / Eye health /

If we have vision, we can transform universal access to spectacles

Glasses can be life-changing for someone with refractive error. That’s why we’ve joined the World Health Organization’s SPECS 2030 initiative.

May 2024
A female researcher speaks to a woman about her experience of female genital schistosomiasis.
Blogs / Fighting disease /

Why community collaboration is important in our research

Our research on female genital schistosomiasis has shown the need to establish a safe environment for participants when studying sensitive topics.

April 2024
Johannes Trimmel
Blogs / Disability & inclusion /

The key to inclusive education is engaging organisations of people with disabilities

Collaborating with disability groups has earned the Inclusive Futures consortium a Zero Project Award in 2024.

February 2024
Hortance stands alongside a man at a Sightsavers event stand.
Blogs / Eye health /

Six takeaways from the International Conference for Public Health in Africa

Sightsavers’ Hortance Manjo shares insights from the event in Zambia, which highlighted eye health for the first time.

January 2024
A woman receives medication to treat river blindness from community volunteer.
Blogs / Fighting disease /

Expanding the Reaching the Last Mile Fund: a game-changer for river blindness and lymphatic filariasis

The funding pledge is a huge step towards eliminating the diseases.

December 2023
A mother and her young daughter hug and smile.
Blogs / Eye health /

Going beyond health: the role eye care plays in the SDGs

Eye health has an impact on numerous Sustainable Development Goals, and has a ripple effect that improves gender equity, education, economic and health outcomes.

December 2023
Three women discuss gender-based violence at a workshop in Uganda.
Blogs / Disability & inclusion /

Collaborating to improve gender-based violence services

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
Vision technician Ruth Zeo points to an eye chart during an eye screening
Blogs / Eye health /

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

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
Hannah Dawson.
Blogs / Women & girls /

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

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
Tichafara Chisaka.
Blogs / Disability & inclusion /

Inclusive data and Sightsavers: an ongoing journey

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 /

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

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
Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame.
Blogs / Disability & inclusion /

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

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
Joseph Mensah
Blogs / Social & behaviour change /

Social and behaviour change: a game-changer to reduce stigma

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
Cathy Stephen
Blogs / Social & behaviour change /

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

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
Peter Kwasi.
Blogs / Disability & inclusion /

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

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
Simon Brown
Blogs / Disability & inclusion /

Why disability-inclusive employment benefits all of us

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
An eye health worker checks a man's eyes for signs of trachoma.
Blogs / Fighting disease /

How Mali overcame three big challenges and eliminated trachoma

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 /

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

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
Sightsavers staff member Mercia embraces programme participant Maria. They're both smiling broadly.
Blogs / Women & girls /

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

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
Veronica Stapleton.
Blogs / Education /

Making assessments more accessible for children with disabilities

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

February 2023
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.
Blogs /

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

“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
A large group of people gather together for a photo outside a building. Some people are seated, some are standing and there is a man in a wheelchair at the front of the group.
Blogs / Social & behaviour change /

How inclusion ambassadors are reducing disability stigma and discrimination in Ghana

Sightsavers’ Joseph Mensah explains how the Ghana Somubi Dwumadie programme is helping to change negative social attitudes and behaviour.

April 2022
A screengrab from a video chat, showing Alyssa Marriner and Cosmas Ejong.
Blogs / Fighting disease /

How can deworming change the world?

Ndellejong Cosmas Eljong, Sightsavers’ technical adviser for schistosomiasis and intestinal worms, tells us via video about his work to fight parasitic worm infections and how deworming can have a huge impact on communities around the world.

November 2021
A young boy smiles and waves at the camera.
Blogs / Disability & inclusion /

The African Disability Protocol: a call to leave no one behind

The African Disability Protocol is unique to the continent and takes African practices and concerns into consideration so that the lives of people with disabilities improve.

August 2021
A large group of women dance and clap while celebrating the elimination of trachoma in The Gambia.
Blogs / Fighting disease /

Trachoma elimination in The Gambia: sustaining the success story

Sightsavers directors Balla Musa and Phil Downs reflect on what this achievement means for The Gambia, and how other countries can learn from the experience.

April 2021
Dr Caroline Harper
Blogs / Our organisation /

“I don’t look to famous women to inspire me – I look to those I know well”

To coincide with International Women's Day, we asked our CEO, Caroline Harper, a few questions about her career at Sightsavers. 

March 2020
A woman gives a talk to a group of men.
Blogs / Women & girls /

Gender equality: why is it important?

Sightsavers ran a workshop in Dakar in December 2019 to promote gender mainstreaming in all its programmes.

January 2020
A close-up of people placing their hands on top of one another.
Blogs / Disability & inclusion /

12 tips to make health programmes inclusive for people with disabilities

Sightsavers hosted a workshop focusing on practical approaches to disability inclusion, where participants generated ideas to make sure healthcare is as inclusive as possible.

June 2019
An eye health worker uses a torch while checking a man's eyes for trachoma.
Blogs / Fighting disease /

What we’ve learned from trachoma elimination in Ghana

Sarah Bartlett discusses Sightsavers’ involvement in this milestone, what we’ve learned from the experience and the work that lies ahead.

September 2018
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