Sightsavers News Summer 2011
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Welcome
Welcome to the new edition of Sightsavers News. We hope that you will enjoy reading all about our work.
Every picture tells a story
Photographer Zul Mukhida returned to Uganda, his place of birth, to capture how we’re tackling the blinding disease trachoma.
Lorraine Kelly
Braving the blistering heat on the Comic Relief Desert Trek hasn’t deterred Lorraine Kelly from wanting to do more for Sightsavers, in fact quite the opposite!
In the news
On the 9 July South Sudan was declared an independent state. Find out more about Sightsavers work in the country.
Tackling the diseases the world forgot
Neglected tropical diseases affect over 1.4 billion of the world’s poorest people. Sightsavers has been tackling two of these diseases - river blindness and trachoma for many years. Now we’ve found a way to help even more.
The silent thief of sight
Sightsavers’ supporters will be familiar with our work on cataract, river blindness and trachoma, but there is another lesser known disease called glaucoma which is fast gaining a reputation as the ‘silent thief of sight’.
Strength in numbers
Two inspirational women from Bangladesh tell us how forming a group with other blind and visually impaired people has changed their lives for the better.
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