Global Goals
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all by 2030. Sightsavers’ work is aligned with the goals and directly contributes to achieving them.
We are working together – and changing the world.
Nearly all the countries in the world have promised to radically improve the state of our planet and the lives of its citizens by 2030.
They’ve committed themselves to a wide range of life-changing goals, which include ending extreme hunger and poverty, giving people better health and education, achieving equality for women and girls, and delivering greater fairness in the way the world economy works.
Sightsavers and the Global Goals
We’re working towards a world where everyone has access to health care (Goals 1 and 3); where there’s no gender or disability discrimination (Goals 5, 10 and 16); where neglected tropical diseases have been eliminated (Goals 3 and 6); and where every child can access education (Goal 4).
We’re aiming for a world where no one is left behind (Goals 4, 8, 11 and 16).
We work in partnership (Goal 17) with local, national and international organisations to bring about change: from small self-help groups set up by and for people with disabilities, to government departments in the UK and developing countries, to multilaterals like the World Bank and funders like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
How we’re working towards the Global Goals
Put Us in the Picture
Our campaign calls for global development to be inclusive of people with disabilities. Join us!
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Eliminating NTDs
We have ambitious plans to eliminate trachoma, river blindness and other neglected tropical diseases.
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Disability rights
We work on making health care, education and employment opportunities available to all.
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More about the Global Goals
Four takeaways from the Zero project in Vienna
If people with disabilities cannot make their voices heard, they will be systematically excluded from access to services. It would make a huge difference if their needs and ideas were considered from the very beginning.
Joining the dots on universal health coverage
As momentum gathers towards the High Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage in September, it is critical that dialogue taking place at other related meetings and events is aligned.
Sightsavers launches global #EqualUN campaign
Sightsavers has launched a global campaign calling on the United Nations to ensure that the work of all its agencies is fully inclusive of people with disabilities.
We believe all people with disabilities should have the chance to learn, earn and be happy. Do you?
Join our campaign