Our awards and honours

Sightsavers’ BLINK exhibition scoops multiple accolades

One year after it was exhibited, Sightsavers’ innovative photography exhibition BLINK has won another prestigious award.

A school-aged boy has his height measured to receive deworming treatment during a school based mass drug administration.

Sightsavers ranked as a top charity by GiveWell for fifth year in a row

The charity evaluator has once again praised Sightsavers’ deworming programmes in Africa for their cost-effectiveness and transparency.

A group of women hold hands in a large circle.

Sightsavers' Equal World campaign wins Third Sector award

Sightsavers' innovative campaign app allowed staff in programme countries to collect petition signatures from people living in areas without internet coverage.

A close-up of a plastic vial containing the flies that transmit river blindness.

Three Sightsavers nominees recognised by IAPB

The accolades, from the the International Association and Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), celebrate eye health staff and volunteers.

A man gives a young girl a ride on the back of his bicycle.

Sightsavers receives Innovative Practice prize in Zero Project Awards

The award recognises Sightsavers’ work on its early childhood development and education project in Malawi.

A large group of people stand with their awards for tackling river blindness in Nigeria.

Sightsavers recognised for its work to eliminate river blindness in Nigeria

The Nigerian ministry of health presented the award for Sightsavers' work to treat the disease in Kaduna State.

Caroline Harper, CEO of Sightsavers, holding a dose pole.

Dr Caroline Harper wins the first Hemingway Award

Sightsavers’ chief executive was recognised for her work to help eliminate trachoma around the world by transforming the way funding is secured.

Eye surgeon Samson Lokele inspects a patient before her eye surgery.

Sightsavers’ pioneering work is showcased in new Science Museum exhibition

Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries is the world’s largest medical gallery and will be on display for at least 30 years.

A woman has her eyes checked by an eye health worker in an outdoor screening camp in India.

Sightsavers named most cost-effective health charity

Charity evaluator ImpactMatters has awarded Sightsavers a top rating for the cost-effectiveness of its work, based on independent research into its eye health project in the Indian Sundarbans.

A surgeon operates, using only the light of a window, on a patient to save their sight from trachoma.

Photo of sight-saving surgery is nominated for UK prize

Adriane Ohanesian’s image of a Sightsavers-supported surgeon operating on a teenager in a makeshift clinic has been put forward for the Wellcome Photography Prize 2019.

Dominic Haslam sat at a desk talking into a microphone

Sightsavers director Dominic Haslam awarded an OBE

Dominic, who is Sightsavers’ Director of Policy and Programme Strategy, has been recognised by the Queen in the Birthday Honours for his services to people with disabilities.

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