Education resources

We want to ensure children with disabilities have the best start in life and can go to school alongside their peers.

We work with local and national partners to promote inclusive, quality education, giving all children the chance to go to school. Through our learning, and our work with our partners and communities, we have published the reports, guides and videos below.

Two schoolboys, arm in arm, walk down a dirt track by the side of a road.

Videos

Inclusive education in Senegal

This video of our pilot project in Senegal shows children with and without disabilities learning together in mainstream schools. This project was funded by Irish Aid. Images from the documentary ‘Agora braille’, directed by Mame Woury Thioubou. © 2016 www.dynamoproduction.fr
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Reports and guides

Education / Reports /

Sightsavers inclusive education strategy: championing every child’s right to an inclusive, quality education

To promote educational access and quality for children and young people with disabilities, Sightsavers and its partners adopt a holistic systems-strengthening approach.

Learn how we’re supporting children to learn

Inclusive education

Blogs on inclusive education

A young girl wearing a hearing aid smiles behind a stack of papers at a classroom desk.
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Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Inclusive education: the missing piece of the climate resilience puzzle

When climate-induced disasters occur, children with disabilities face a unique set of barriers.

April 2026
Mariana Rudge.
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Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Moving from intention to action is key to inclusive education for all

Following the Global Disability Summit, Sightsavers and the Global Partnership for Education share how world leaders can achieve quality schooling for children with disabilities.

May 2025
Veronica Stapleton.
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Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

To achieve quality education for all, disability inclusion is critical

At the CIES conference, there were many examples of innovative uses of digital technology, but strategies for reaching children with disabilities were rarely discussed.

April 2025
Portrait pictures of Sightsavers' researchers.
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Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Making schools safer for children with disabilities

Dr Steven Kaindaneh and Dr Julia de Kadt explain how our new research puts children with disabilities at the centre of efforts to combat gender-based violence.

December 2024
Twelve-year-old Arthur smiles as he stands next to his teacher, Mr Thompson. They stand in front of a chalk board in a classroom.
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Blogs / Eye health /

Child eye health is key to wellbeing and accessing education

In line with World Sight Day’s focus on child eye health, our experts reveal why eye screenings in schools are boosting students’ academic performance.

September 2024
Johannes Trimmel
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Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

The key to inclusive education is engaging organisations of people with disabilities

Collaborating with disability groups has earned the Inclusive Futures consortium a Zero Project Award in 2024.

February 2024