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Stephen Hawking to deliver speech at Sightsavers celebration
The physicist will lead global celebrations to mark the one billionth treatment that Sightsavers and partners have delivered to tackle NTDs.
Sightsavers welcomes UK announcement of global disability summit
The UK government will hold a disability summit in July 2018, as part of a push to ensure people with disabilities are included in global development.
New alliance in Bangladesh promotes disability-inclusive development
The alliance, inaugurated in Dhaka, promotes the inclusion of people with disabilities as part of the country’s implementation of the Global Goals.
Sightsavers and partners celebrate delivering a billion NTD treatments
The billionth treatment was administered on Thursday 16 November to a seven-year-old girl named Dorcas, who was at risk of NTDs in Kaduna State, Nigeria.
New trustees join Sightsavers’ UK board
The new board members are epidemiologist Professor Christopher Whitty, disability advocate Abia Akram and political economist Mavis Owusu-Gyamfi.
Sightsavers is named top charity for customer service
For the second year in a row, Sightsavers has been named top charity in the Top 50 Companies for Customer Service Awards.
Funding boost for Sightsavers’ disability employment project in Uganda
The Connecting the Dots project has been awarded almost £200,000 by the Big Lottery Fund to continue empowering young people with disabilities.
Sightsavers hosts photo exhibition on London’s South Bank
Photographs of Sightsavers’ work in Pakistan, taken by Andrew McConnell, are on show at the More London Riverside development near Tower Bridge.
Mali government and USAID praise Sightsavers’ inclusive education programme
More than 250 children with visual impairments will go to primary school in Mali as the result of a Sightsavers pilot being run in six schools.
‘The Big Bake’ launches Sightsavers’ partnership with Optical Express
The partnership was launched on World Sight Day with a nationwide bake sale, during which Optical Express staff channelled their inner Mary Berry.
