Protecting sight and fighting for disability rights
75% of sight loss can be cured or prevented
Learn how you can help
Summer appeal
River blindness stole Mamodu’s sight. Will you help protect others from this cruel disease?
About us
Want to know more about Sightsavers? Here you can find out where we work, how we’re run and what we do with the money we raise.
Watch our CEO’s TED Talk
Caroline Harper explains how eliminating trachoma will free millions of people from blindness and poverty.
Focus magazine: See how your support is changing lives
Read the latest issueWorld Water Week:
25-30 August
Learn why water is a vital part of our work to save sight
More on World Water Week
What we do
- We treat and prevent eye conditions such as cataracts, trachoma and refractive error.
- We help to fight five debilitating diseases that affect more than a billion people around the world.
- We campaign for disability rights so people with disabilities can participate equally in society.
Read more about Sightsavers, or watch our video to learn what we do and see our work in action.
We work in more than 30 countries worldwide
Where we workHow we’re making a difference
The father and son fighting tropical diseases in Nigeria
Meet Jacob and Moses, who are working together to protect their community from debilitating diseases such as river blindness.
An epic journey to help save sight
Sightsavers’ Jo Howard travels across rural Tanzania with an eye health team to see how far they must go to treat the most remote communities for trachoma.
Sightsavers launches global disability rights petition
The petition is part of Sightsavers' campaign calling for leaders and global organisations to uphold the rights of people with disabilities.
