Education
Sightsavers contributes to Global Education Monitoring Report
A Sightsavers report on education for children with visual impairments in sub-Saharan Africa has been published as a background paper to the 2020 Global Education Monitoring Report.
Downloadable colouring pages
Help your children to colour in the sheets and learn that all children, regardless of disability or gender, should be able to attend school.
A quick guide to Sightsavers’ inclusive education work
This leaflet provides an overview of our education work which promotes inclusive, lifelong learning opportunities for all children, leaving no child behind.
School Health Integrated Programming: Guidelines for school-based eye health programmes
The purpose of these guidelines is to provide direction to those planning and implementing vision screening programmes as a part of eye health initiatives within the education sector.
Educating pre-school children when resources are scarce
Sightsavers’ Ronnie Stapleton visited pre-schools across Malawi to train teachers how to include children with disabilities. She also learned a lot along the way.
Sightsavers receives Innovative Practice prize in Zero Project Awards
Sightsavers won the award for its work supporting children with disabilities in Malawi.
Training flipchart for the inclusion of children with disabilities in pre-schools in Malawi
A course designed for caregivers on the inclusion of young children with disabilities in community-based childhood care centres in Malawi.
Gender equality: why is it important?
Sightsavers ran a workshop in Dakar in December 2019 to promote gender mainstreaming in all its programmes.
Albinism guide
A guide for teachers and parents of children with albinism, in English and French.
Inclusive teaching and learning for children with visual impairments
This guide identifies ways in which children with visual impairments (children who are blind and children with low vision) can be included in mainstream schools in sub-Saharan Africa.
