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Read more about our work that is helping to change lives around the world.

A schoolgirl wearing colourful clothing talks to a friend in the playground at their school in Mali.

Our current programmes

Eye care staff perform trachoma surveys on children in Cote D'Ivoire.

Accelerate: trachoma elimination

Accelerate aims to support at least 15 countries to eliminate trachoma as a public health risk, and speed up progress in two others by 2027.
A staff member at a call centre wears a headset and sits at a computer. He's wearing dark glasses and smart clothes.

Inclusive Futures

The programme is testing innovative ways to improve economic empowerment and inclusion for people with disabilities, enabling them to earn a living.
The five cartoon superheroes from the campaign.

Super School of Five

This project, running in Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya and Zambia, introduces superhero characters to schoolchildren to encourage them to wash their hands and faces, to help eliminate trachoma.
A man examines black fly larvae found near the the Agogo river in northern Uganda.

Onchocerciasis mapping project

We’re working with our partners in Ghana and Nigeria to devise new ways to collect valuable data about river blindness, also known as onchocerciasis.
A close-up of a mobile phone being used by a health worker to record data.

Digital health: how technology is used to fight disease

Sightsavers is pioneering new ways to use technology as part of programmes to tackle avoidable blindness.
A school student has her eyes tested while wearing optical glasses: an eye health worker's hand is changing the lenses in the glasses.

Improving health and nutrition in schools

The project screens school children for health problems such as worm infections or poor vision, and refers them for treatment.
Hairdresser Beatrice teaches hair salon intern Irene, who uses a wheelchair.

Connecting the Dots

The first stage of the programme, in Uganda, has provided vocational training courses for people with disabilities, helping to transform attitudes within the local community.
Numbers on the outside wall of a school.

Tusambilile Chapamo: Let’s learn together

We’re working with our partners in Muchinga province, Zambia, to improve educational opportunities for children and young people with disabilities.
Muhammed has his eyes tested by a health worker.

Inclusive eye health

Sightsavers advocates for universal health coverage for all, meaning everyone, wherever they live, is able to access quality, affordable health care.
School children in Tanzania smile for the camera.

The Commonwealth Fund

This programme funds trachoma surgery, treatment and improved hygiene and sanitation in 10 Commonwealth countries.

Our recent programmes

A health worker takes notes during a mass drug administration campaign in Nigeria.

Ascend: fighting disease in Africa

This programme was Sightsavers’ largest multiple neglected tropical disease programme to date. It closed in August 2021.
An older women smiling.

Seeing is Believing

This 17-year-long project worked to treat avoidable blindness and improve local healthcare. It reached more than 34 million people living in Africa and Asia.
A doctor checks a pair of glasses on a women.

The Right to Health

This programme focused on restoring sight and making health services accessible for marginalised groups in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
A close-up of a school student washing her hands using water running from a tap in a large water butt.

SAFE: trachoma control

Sightsavers’ trachoma control programme, which came to an end in 2019, helped to protect more than 18 million people.
14-year-old Isa runs through the sandy streets of his home town in Sokoto, Nigeria, as his friends chase him. They're all smiling and laughing.

UNITED in Nigeria

This six-year UNITED programme, funded by UK aid, delivered more than 158 million treatments in Nigeria to tackle neglected tropical diseases.
A picture of a brown river with trees hanging over it.

Reducing LF and river blindness

Our programme, which ended in 2019, provided medication to protect people at risk of river blindness and lymphatic filariasis.
A patient in a surgical gown and cap, with a visible cataract in his left eye.

Coordinated Approach to Community Health (CATCH)

We wanted to ensure that patients visiting our trachoma screening camps could also be treated for other eye conditions.
A girl's eyes are examined as part of the Global Trachoma Mapping Project in Nigeria.

The Global Trachoma Mapping Project (GTMP)

The project gathered a wealth of valuable data about the world’s trachoma-endemic areas using smartphones.
A teacher gives guidance to a young boy with albinism in a classroom in Senegal.

Inclusive education in Senegal

This Sightsavers-supported pilot project, launched in 2014, showed that children with and without disabilities can learn together in mainstream schools.
A group of people smile as they sit round a table having a discussion and pointing to paperwork on the table.

Everybody Counts

In 2014, we started testing new ways to collect valuable global data about the inclusion of people with disabilities.
An eye health worker in Malawi checks a woman's eyes for signs of trachoma.

Trachoma Initiative

The five-year programme provided millions of sight-saving treatments to help eliminate trachoma in seven countries.
Art student putting finishing touches to the Inclusive Eye Health mural in Bhopal.

Bhopal inclusive eye health project

Sightsavers’ pilot project in India aimed to ensure that everyone can access eye health services.

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