Protecting sight and fighting for disability rights
Can you imagine living in a world blurred by cataracts?
Help restore a Shahadeb’s sight before it’s too late.
Our campaign
Join our Equal World campaign for disability rights to be upheld worldwide, and help us fight for an end to disability discrimination.
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.
Nearly half of visual impairment can be treated or prevented.
Since 1950, we’ve been saving sight and changing lives around the world.
Our work
Eye health
We protect sight and change lives by treating and preventing a range of eye conditions, from refractive error to trachoma.
Disability rights
We campaign for the rights of people with disabilities to participate equally in society, leaving no one behind.
Fighting disease
We help to tackle five debilitating neglected tropical diseases that affect more than a billion people around the world.
We work in more than 30 countries worldwide
Where we workHow we’re making a difference
Sightsavers pledges at least US$25 million to help beat neglected tropical diseases
The funding, which will be spent between now and 2025, will help to protect millions of people from the harmful effects of NTDs.
“Now we can get the help we need”
In Pakistan and Bangladesh, Sightsavers’ Right to Health project worked with transgender communities to remove the barriers they face when accessing eye health care.
Our deworming work receives extra funding to reach millions of children
Charity evaluator GiveWell has provided a further US$7.8 million to help us fight disease in Nigeria and Cameroon.
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