Protecting sight and fighting for disability rights
75% of sight loss can be cured or prevented
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About us
Sightsavers’ mission is to prevent avoidable blindness and fight for disability rights. Find out where we work, how we’re run and what we do with the money we raise.
Where we work
Sightsavers is an international development charity working in 30 countries across Africa and Asia to prevent blindness and strengthen local health systems.
Christmas appeal
This Christmas you can make history. Join us in eliminating trachoma by 2025. With your help, we can end the agony.
How we’re making a difference
Protecting sight
We work in low and middle income countries to treat and prevent eye conditions such as cataracts, trachoma and refractive error.
How we protect sight
Fighting disease
We help to fight five debilitiating diseases, known as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), that affect more than a billion people worldwide.
Our work to fight disease
Disability rights
We campaign to make sure people with visual impairments or other disabilities can participate equally in society without fear of discrimination.
More about disability rights
We work in more than 30 countries
We prevent avoidable blindness in some of the world’s poorest areas by partnering with local communities, governments and other groups.
As part of our work in these countries, we distribute treatments to protect against disease, carry out operations and eye examinations, strengthen health systems and advocate for people with disabilities.
Our main offices are in the UK, Ireland, Italy, the US and the UAE, and we also have regional offices in Senegal, Kenya and India.
Find out more about Sightsavers across the world
Where we workRead more about our work
In Ghana, we’ve beaten trachoma and changed millions of lives
In May 2018, Ghana became the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to eliminate trachoma. Read the amazing stories here.
Sightsavers is one of GiveWell’s top charities once again
The charity evaluator praised Sightsavers for its work treating children for parasitic infections, known as deworming.
$105 million fund to eliminate trachoma launched at star-studded concert in South Africa
The funding was announced by Richard Branson, via recorded video link, at the Global Citizen concert in Johannesburg on 2 December 2018.
