From the field
The businesses embracing disability inclusion
Meet the teams that Sightsavers partners with around the world to help them foster more disability inclusive workplaces.
Finding nomadic communities: our research in action
How do you provide treatment for neglected tropical diseases like river blindness when you can’t find some of the people who are most at risk?
Programme staff: “How we adapted our eye health projects during COVID-19”
Sightsavers staff provide a first-hand insight into our work with ministries of health, partner hospitals and volunteers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nine steps to holding pop-up eye screening camps on the doorsteps of marginalised communities
In February 2020, Sightsavers' Kirsty Bridger visited Bangladesh to learn how we organise our eye screening camps.
The business owner training young people with disabilities
Isaac Bolingo is training young people with disabilities to be mechanics in his garage.
Working together to tackle NTDs in Liberia
In the first year of the programme, the Ascend West and Central Africa partners have supported health workers and volunteers to deliver mass treatment campaigns that will help tackle high rates of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in Liberia.
Reducing stigma in communities while fighting NTDs
Mr Alabi, the neglected tropical disease (NTD) coordinator for Kogi State, Nigeria, and his team provide NTD interventions to more than four million people annually.
July 2020 updates: highlights from around the world
A young boy has his sight restored in Nigeria, plus news from Kenya, Pakistan, Tanzania and Ghana.
Programme staff explain how we’re supporting children's learning during lockdown
Sightsavers staff provide a first-hand insight into the five ways we’re making sure children with disabilities aren’t left behind during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Saving sight in Senegal during the COVID-19 pandemic
Without eye surgeon Babacar's efforts, people could have been at risk of going blind from the advanced form of trachoma during the lockdown.
