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A mural on a school wall showing five superhero characters.

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Geordie Woods explains how the Super School of Five trachoma prevention programme is protecting school children from this devastating disease.

Three women posing together with smiles.

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To mark World Sight Day 2019 on 10 October, Sightsavers country offices celebrated by highlighting the need to provide good-quality eye care to everyone.

October 2019

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Before the Sightsavers eye health programme in the Sundarbans started, one in every 40 people over the age of 50 in the region was blind. Today, that number has dropped to one in 80.

October 2019

Two women and five small children stand outside their home.

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In northern Kenya, Sightsavers’ Sarah Filbey visits an eye camp that treats both trachoma and cataracts, ensuring everyone gets the life-changing help they need.

October 2019

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The accolades, awarded by the IAPB, recognise eight young and upcoming leaders who are making a difference in eye health.

October 2019

$A box of lenses used to check for refractive errors during an eye exam.$

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The statistics feature in the World Health Organization's first World Report on Vision, published ahead of World Sight Day.

October 2019

Eye surgeon Upendo performs a cataract operation.

News / Eye health /

Sightsavers is launching a three-year programme to provide quality eye care to rural populations in the Morogoro and Singida regions.

October 2019

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Opthalmic nurse Postan Phiri is a popular figure in the communities he visits in rural Zambia, referring patients with cataracts for sight-saving surgery.

Lovemore on a swing smiling after his operation

Stories / Eye health /

In eastern Zambia, Sightsavers’ Corinna May met nine-year-old Lovemore and saw his amazing transformation following sight-saving cataract surgery.

A student covers one eye during an eye test at a school in India.

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Mr Aahiswar is head teacher at Rangai Middle School in central India. He has been trained to screen students for vision problems so children can get the life-changing help they need.

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How soap and superheroes are changing lives

How Sightsavers celebrated World Sight Day

Sightsavers and partners help to halve blindness cases in remote Indian Sundarbans

“That lady who was going blind? Look at her now!”

Sightsavers Mozambique’s Mercia Cumaio named Eye Health Hero

New figures show more than a billion people have avoidable vision impairment

Sightsavers launches eye health programme in Tanzania

Postan’s story

A childhood restored and a future secured

How we’re training teachers to spot blinding eye conditions

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