Press releases archive
Here you can access a selection of our archive press releases
2009
Sightsavers volunteer Tom Shenton has just returned from an eye-opening trip to Malawi to see how Sightsavers supported projects are bringing hope to hundreds of people who are blind and visually impaired in the country.
- Local charity set to hit the streets of London to help save sight
A team of ten people from Sightsavers will be running in The Standard Chartered Great City Race on Thursday 16 July. The Sightsavers team have mixed running experience but all share equal enthusiasm!
- Sightsavers Sunday Press Release
Sightsavers is asking churches across the UK to join together to mark World Sight Day. Click here to read the Sightsavers Sunday press release and to download your copy.
- WHO calling for free spectacles in world economy drive
Read or download Sightsavers' press release that supports the World Health Organisation's call for the distribution of low-cost interventions such as spectacles to help boost the global economy.
- Nelson Mandela joins pupils worldwide for Send My Friend to School 09
Send My Friend to School kicks off with a new, exciting action for ’09 and loads of free materials and information. The campaign is once again asking UK school pupils to join forces with young campaigners around the world and keep up the pressure on global leaders to end the education crisis.
2008
Stuck for present ideas this Christmas? Finding a meaningful gift can be a real challenge especially when having to face the crowds. Why not buy something your loved ones will really cherish – the gift of sight.
Catherine Cross picks up the prestigious 2008 Mectizan® Award, awarded by global pharmaceutical company Merck & Co., Inc. in recognition of the efforts of an individual in the fight to eliminate river blindness.
George Michael, Ewan McGregor, Sir Michael Caine, Stephen Fry and Kate Silverton are among the list of celebrities who have donated their glasses to Sightsavers International for auction to highlight the plight of those living in darkness because they need a pair of spectacles.
Award-winning students from Felpham Community College in Bognor Regis, West Sussex, have just returned from the trip of a lifetime to Malawi with leading blindness charity, Sightsavers International.
Four UK primary school children have been selected by Professor Maurice Cockrill RA, Keeper of the Royal Academy of Arts, as the Sightsavers International Junior Painters of the Year.
A new survey of blindness and low vision in Nigeria of adults aged 40 and above has found that nearly half a million adults in Africa’s most populous country are in immediate need of cataract surgery.
Leading blindness charity Sightsavers International today welcomed the coming into force of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which takes effect from 3 May 2008.
Nine million people worldwide are running out of time in the fight to save their sight. Suffering from the painful eye condition trichiasis they are in need of a 30-minute operation which charities such as Sightsavers International can provide for just £5.
2007
Lord Nigel Crisp, former Chief Executive of the NHS, has today been announced as the new Chairman of leading blindness organisation, Sightsavers International.
A paper published in this week’s British Medical Journal has established that poverty is significantly associated with blindness and visual impairment in Pakistan.
An exciting new product is set to launch at the Africa Forum (the 4th annual forum to share learnings about the quality of services available for blind people in Africa) on 6th – 12th May, featuring cutting edge assistive technology.
This October marks the 20th anniversary of the largest ongoing medical donation programme and public private partnership in history.
Amadou & Mariam, Malian music stars and Sightsavers ambassadors are joining the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) at the ‘Keeping Our Promises on Education’ high level donor pledging conference in Brussels
A Land Rover vehicle, fully restored by young people based at Birmingham City Council’s Youth Offending Team West, will soon begin an epic journey from Birmingham to Africa to help blind people in Sierra Leone.
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