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A man and woman pose with a piece of art.

News / Fundraising /

The Rotary Club of Newbridge is running an exciting new art show event, which will raise money for Sightsavers and other charities.

February 2020

A little boy smiles after having an eye exam.

News /

A baby born with cataracts is smiling again following surgery in Zambia, plus stories from India, Nigeria and Bangladesh.

January 2020

A young boy stands outside in the sun wearing light coloured clothes. There is a small house to the left and a tree to the right.

News / Fighting disease /

Our sight-saving work in rural Kenya was featured in BBC coverage for World NTD Day 2020.

January 2020

News / Fighting disease /

The first World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day on 30 January 2020 kicked off a year of decisive action on NTDs.

January 2020

A group of female and male community volunteers stand for a portrait holding dose poles.

News / Fighting disease /

On 30 January, Sightsavers joined in celebrations for the first ever World NTD Day around the world.

January 2020

A man gives a young girl a ride on the back of his bicycle.

News / Education /

Sightsavers won the award for its work supporting children with disabilities in Malawi.

January 2020

News / Fundraising /

Sightsavers has been shortlisted for a Charity Film Award for our ‘What we do’ film.

January 2020

A group of people with disabilities raise their hands.

News / Disability and inclusion /

The legislation, approved on 10 January, will make it illegal to discriminate or exclude people on the basis of disability.

January 2020

News / Disability and inclusion /

In 2019 we campaigned for disability rights in 14 countries around the world. Here’s what we did and some of the impact it’s had so far.

December 2019

A large group of people stand with their awards for tackling river blindness in Nigeria.

News / Fighting disease /

The Nigerian ministry of health presented the award for Sightsavers' work to treat the disease in Kaduna State.

December 2019

Two women stand together, smiling. They hold petition signs.

News / Disability and inclusion /

Throughout 2019, Sightsavers has used its Put Us in the Picture disability campaign to ask political leaders to ensure people with disabilities aren’t left behind in global aid.

December 2019

Usman smiles after receiving eye surgery.

News /

In Nigeria, a lymphatic filariasis patient is planning to marry his partner after receiving treatment to stop his pain. Plus news from Senegal, Zambia and India.

November 2019

News / Fighting disease /

The charity evaluator praised Sightsavers’ deworming work in Africa for its cost-effectiveness and transparency.

November 2019

Caroline Harper, CEO of Sightsavers, holding a dose pole.

News / Fighting disease /

Sightsavers’ CEO was recognised for her work to help eliminate trachoma by transforming the way funding is secured.

November 2019

A woman has her eyes checked by an eye health worker in an outdoor screening camp in India.

News / Eye health /

Charity evaluator ImpactMatters awarded Sightsavers a five-star rating for cost-effectiveness – the highest score available.

November 2019

Samson Lokele poses next to his image in the Science Museum exhibition.

News / Fighting disease /

Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries is the world’s largest medical gallery and will be on display for at least 30 years.

November 2019

A male Tropical Data trainer shows female trainee how to identify what trachoma follicles would look like by using small, circular, red stickers with five white dots on their thumbs.

News / Fighting disease /

More than 700 surveys to track levels of blinding trachoma have been completed globally in the past year as part of the Tropical Data initiative.

October 2019

A still from the My legacy video, showing a woman holding her dog.

News / Fundraising /

Sightsavers is joining more than 60 Irish charities taking part in the event, encouraging supporters to make a will and consider leaving a gift to charity.

October 2019

Three women posing together with smiles.

News / Eye health /

To mark World Sight Day 2019 on 10 October, Sightsavers country offices celebrated by highlighting the need to provide good-quality eye care to everyone.

October 2019

News / Eye health /

Before the Sightsavers eye health programme in the Sundarbans started, one in every 40 people over the age of 50 in the region was blind. Today, that number has dropped to one in 80.

October 2019

Two women and five small children stand outside their home.

News / Eye health /

In northern Kenya, Sightsavers’ Sarah Filbey visits an eye camp that treats both trachoma and cataracts, ensuring everyone gets the life-changing help they need.

October 2019

News / Eye health /

The accolades, awarded by the IAPB, recognise eight young and upcoming leaders who are making a difference in eye health.

October 2019

$A box of lenses used to check for refractive errors during an eye exam.$

News / Eye health /

The statistics feature in the World Health Organization's first World Report on Vision, published ahead of World Sight Day.

October 2019

Eye surgeon Upendo performs a cataract operation.

News / Eye health /

Sightsavers is launching a three-year programme to provide quality eye care to rural populations in the Morogoro and Singida regions.

October 2019

News / Disability and inclusion /

A survey of civil society organisations, co-edited by Sightsavers, is being published this week during the Sustainable Development Goals summit at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

September 2019

Six children's dolls lined up in a field

News / Fundraising /

A range of disability-inclusive dolls has been launched to teach children about disability, with 10 per cent of the sales from each doll donated to Sightsavers and other charities.

September 2019

A close up photograph of someone's hand running over a sheet of braille.

News / Disability and inclusion /

It has become the latest country to ratify the Marrakesh Treaty, which allows exceptions to standard copyright laws so books can be reproduced in braille and other accessible formats.

September 2019

News / Fighting disease /

The video, introduced by newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky, includes a segment on Sightsavers' work to tackle schistosomiasis in Guinea-Bissau.

September 2019

Muhammed, who has lymphatic filariasis, with health worker Suraji in Nigeria.

News / Fighting disease /

The Ascend programme, which Sightsavers is leading, aims to tackle six of the world’s worst diseases in 25 countries.

September 2019

Two trucks drive through a dusty landscape in Benin, with parched shrubs on either side of the road.

News / Fighting disease /

A team from ‘La Vie’, BBC Africa’s French-language health programme, followed the story of two women from Benin as they had surgery for blinding trachoma.

September 2019

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News

Newbridge art show will raise money for Sightsavers

January 2020 updates: highlights from around the world

Sightsavers surgeon featured on BBC for World NTD Day

Sightsavers and partners celebrate the first World NTD Day

World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day 2020: highlights from around the world

Sightsavers receives Innovative Practice prize in Zero Project Awards

Sightsavers shortlisted for Charity Film Awards

Pakistan’s first-ever Disability Rights Act becomes law

Highlights from a year of disability rights campaigning

Sightsavers wins award for its work to eliminate river blindness in Nigeria

Sightsavers Ireland delivers 5,000-signature petition to Irish leaders

November 2019 updates: highlights from around the world

Sightsavers rated a top charity by GiveWell for the fourth time

Dr Caroline Harper wins the first Hemingway Award

Sightsavers named most cost-effective health charity

Sightsavers’ pioneering work is showcased in new Science Museum exhibition

Huge increase in Tropical Data surveys means more people are checked for trachoma

Sightsavers encourages supporters to make a will for My Legacy Month

How Sightsavers celebrated World Sight Day

Sightsavers and partners help to halve blindness cases in remote Indian Sundarbans

“That lady who was going blind? Look at her now!”

Sightsavers Mozambique’s Mercia Cumaio named Eye Health Hero

New figures show more than a billion people have avoidable vision impairment

Sightsavers launches eye health programme in Tanzania

Civil society survey finds mixed results on SDGs progress

Inclusive dolls will help raise money for Sightsavers

Tanzania joins the push to make accessible books more widely available

Sightsavers’ work to fight disease features in new video

New health programme will protect 200 million people from disease

BBC Africa films first trachoma operations in Benin