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March highlights: global project updates
Featuring a renovated and reopened eye clinic in Liberia. Plus updates from Senegal and Malawi.
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Eye health groups call for urgent action to prevent blindness
Sightsavers and five other organisations have issued an open letter that aims to put pressure on Commonwealth governments, ahead of next week's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London.
Sixteen women nominated for UN disability committee
A call for better gender representation and geographical spread in the United Nations disability committee has seen 16 women from six continents put forward for election in 2018.
Sightsavers CEO gives TED Talk outlining plan to eliminate trachoma
During her talk in Vancouver on 11 April, Caroline Harper urged philanthropists to support the newly launched Audacious Project, which could help to eliminate the disease.
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What if we eliminated one of the world’s oldest diseases?
Sightsavers CEO Caroline Harper says we could be just years away from one of the greatest achievements in human health: ridding the world of trachoma.
The UK disability summit: 100 days to go
It's 100 days until the world’s first global disability summit, hosted by the UK government’s Department for International Development.
“My top marathon tip? Convince yourself it’s not raining!”
World champion judoka Ben Quilter is running the London Marathon in 2018 to promote Sightsavers. Here, the Paralympic bronze medallist shares some essential training tips.
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March highlights: updates from around the world
Including news from Liberia, where Sightsavers has reopened an eye clinic that has been closed for two years. Plus updates from Senegal, Malawi and more.
February highlights: updates from around the world
Including news from India, where women with disabilities took part in a running event to raise awareness of women’s health.
Watch cataract surgery condensed into one and a half minutes
During a recent trip to Bangladesh, we filmed a time-lapse video of a Sightsavers cataract operation taking place at Khulna BNSB hospital.
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See all from the fieldSightsavers’ vision is of a world where no one is blind from avoidable causes.
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