Videos

Here you can watch a selection of videos that Sightsavers have made over the years. They cover a selection of topics and have been made for a variety of purposes: some are professional, some amateur, there are television adverts and video diaries. We hope you enjoy them...

David Tennant in Uganda

Doctor Who actor David Tennant was one of the well-known faces who visited Sightsavers’ work for Comic Relief. He made some appeal films featuring children living with cataract in eastern Uganda.

Eye care in action

Bupa International attend an eye screening in Hazaribagh, India.

Saving sight in Kolkata

Bupa International visit our eye care project in Kolkata.

A picture tells a thousand words

It's a common enough expression, but especially so for Sightsavers! This new film covers many aspects of our work, and shows clearly and movingly what we do, and how we do it.

Rowan's climb video

Meet an inspiring blind boy who climbed one of the highest mountains in Belize to raise money for Sightsavers' partner the Belize Council for the Visually Impaired (BCVI)..

Sightsavers at the World Health Assembly

Sightsavers recently attended the World Health Assembly for the first time. Three members of staff recorded video blogs while there were there.

Meet Sory from Mali

Seventy-five year old Sory Diarra has been blind since 1988, due to river blindness. He lives in Tienfala Gare in Koulikoro, a region to the east of Bamako, the capital of Mali.

Kodogo's story

Meet Kodogo Salaash from Orinie in Kenya, who is now free from pain after treatment for trachoma.

Women and blindness

Two out of every three people who are blind are women. Find out more about Sightsavers' work with women and blindness.

Lasoi's story

Film maker Mark Bushnell travelled to Kenya and made a short film about Lasoi, a women who was suffering from the advanced stage of trachoma.

Sightsavers in Pakistan 1998 – 2010

Click here to watch a video about our work in Pakistan over the last twelve years, that shows how our work helped change a village and how that village helped to change us...

Video diaries from Nigeria

Meet Mrs Oluwatoyin Opawoye, who is the Head Ophthalmic Nurse and a refractionist at the Sobi Eye Care Unit in Kwara State, Nigeria. She has been keeping video diaries, which you can view here.

Joanna Lumley interview

An interview with Joanna Lumley about her trip to Bangladesh to visit the Bangladesh Childhood Cataract Campaign - a pledge to track down and treat every child who is needlessly blind due to cataract.