Sightsavers’ Jo Howard travelled to western Zambia to see first-hand the difference your support makes to people in some of the world’s rural communities.
Meet Mr Ndalela. He is the only eye surgeon in the Senanga region of western Zambia who can carry out complicated procedures. But he’s frustrated he can’t do more to help people in the community.
Six leading organisations have come together under the banner ‘Vision for the Commonwealth’ to ask Commonwealth leaders to bring eye care to all.
We believe that no child should have to stop their education due to reversible blindness and infection. But for Namukolo, this could have been a reality.
The weekly programme, called ‘Shopno Dekhe Chokh’ (‘Eyes See the Dream’), tells the stories of people whose vision has been restored in Bangladesh.
A group of Sightsavers staff travelled to Makeni Hospital in Sierra Leone to meet the amazing eye care workers your donations are helping to support.
The family were in a unique position: eight out of nine had cataracts, and the children were struggling to get an education.
An eye health project in north-west Pakistan has increased the number of women accessing cataract surgery in the region.
The Cameroon Cataract Development Impact Loan will provide up to 18,000 cataract operations in the country over the next five years.
In Zambia, Sightsavers’ Alistair Burnett learned first-hand how basic training courses for eye health workers can provide long-term benefits.