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There is compelling evidence that improving access to contraception can reduce mortality and high-risk pregnancies, improve child health and increase protection against sexually transmitted infections.

Andrea Pregel and Amalie Quevedo, September 2023

Vision technician Ruth Zeo points to an eye chart during an eye screening

Blogs / Eye health /

Liberia's National Eye Health Policy will ensure eye health is a priority and help strengthen the wider health system by developing a sustainable, inclusive eye care service.

Nazaradden Ibrahim, September 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

As learners with disabilities are disproportionately affected by global crises such as climate change, we're urging governments to build more resilient education systems for everyone.

Mariana Rudge, September 2023

Blogs / Women and girls /

The event served as a platform for myself and other Sightsavers colleagues to engage in discussions about how to dismantle barriers and tackle the obstacles impeding progress around women’s rights.

Hannah Dawson, September 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Five years since the creation of the Inclusive Data Charter, we’re updating our goals and commitments on inclusive data. So what are our key learnings?

Tichafara Chisaka, July 2023

An eye health worker looks at images on a laptop during a trachoma training session.

Blogs / Fighting disease /

As even more countries get closer to eliminating trachoma, a new challenge is emerging: how to keep the health workforce well-trained on identifying signs of the disease.

Jeremiah Ngondi and Caleb Mpyet, July 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

In my years as a disability advocate, I’ve learned that getting angry needs to be accompanied by getting active. We wanted to advise organisations on how to do better to include women and girls with disabilities.

Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame, July 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers’ Joseph Mensah shares four key learnings from a SBC programme in Ghana that aims to reduce stigma around disability, and how they'll inform our future SBC work.

Joseph Mensah, June 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers’ Cathy Stephen shares what we've learned from embedding inclusive, accessible social behaviour change processes in some of our recent projects in East and West Africa.

Cathy Stephen, June 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers’ Peter Anomah-Kordieh Kwasi shares successes and what we learned from the Ghana Somubi Dwumadie participation project, which Sightsavers supported as a partner to improve the lives of people with disabilities.

Peter Kwasi, June 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Through Ghana Somubi Dwumadie, Sightsavers’ Diane Kingston delivered training that will help protect and promote effective mental health provision and human rights in Ghana.

Diane Kingston, June 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers’ Simon Brown shares how organisations like Sightsavers can influence labour markets to be more inclusive of people with disabilities in decent employment.

Simon Brown, June 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers’ Saleck Ould Dah and Ujala Sarfaraz highlight two key issues around disability inclusion that are hampering efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Sightsavers, June 2023

An eye health worker checks a man's eyes for signs of trachoma.

Blogs / Fighting disease /

Sightsavers’ Boubacar Morou Dicko shares the obstacles Mali faced on the road to eliminating trachoma, and how the country was able to overcome them.

Boubacar Morou Dicko, May 2023

Sightsavers CEO CAroline Harper during her TED Talk, standing in front of large red letters spelling TED.

Blogs / Fighting disease /

In 2018, Sightsavers CEO Caroline Harper took to the TED stage to talk about the importance of eliminating trachoma. Since then, 14 million people have been protected from the disease, but further progress hangs in the balance.

Caroline Harper, April 2023

Amina smiles as she covers one of her eyes with her hand.

Blogs / Eye health /

Sightsavers’ Edwin Maleko shares the impact of an inclusive eye health programme on communities and eye care services in Singida and Morogoro.

Edwin Maleko, March 2023

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers’ Laurène Leclercq shares successes from an award-winning project in Cameroon and Senegal that’s supporting people with disabilities to participate in all aspects of political life.

Laurène Leclercq, March 2023

Sightsavers staff member Mercia embraces programme participant Maria. They're both smiling broadly.

Blogs / Women and girls /

On International Women’s Day, on 8 March, we’re calling for health care to be accessible and inclusive for women and girls.

Sightsavers, February 2023

Blogs / Education /

How an evaluation tool to assess children’s development has been adapted for young children with disabilities in Kenya.

Veronica Stapleton, February 2023

Blogs / Education /

Sightsavers’ Liesbeth Roolvink and Gillian Mackay share learnings from the SMILE project in Nigeria, where a new questionnaire is being used in schools to assess children’s educational needs.

Sightsavers, February 2023

A group photo of people involved in the Ghana Somubi Dwumadie programme.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers’ Peter Anomah-Kordieh Kwasi shares the journey that led to the establishment of a parliamentary caucus that champions disability issues.

Peter Kwasi, November 2022

Blogs / Education /

Sightsavers’ Mariana Rudge shares how world leaders at the Transforming Education Summit responded to our call to take action on inclusive education.

Mariana Rudge, October 2022

A young boy sits at a desk in a classroom, writing in an exercise book. A teacher stands next to him offering guidance.

Blogs / Education /

Sightsavers’ Liesbeth Roolvink shares the work we’re doing in programme countries to help transform education systems so that all children can go to school.

Liesbeth Roolvink, October 2022

An older man talks to a younger man, who is holding a tablet computer. They are sitting in a hospital waiting room.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers' Tichafara Chisaka explains how the campaign aims to transform data in the development community and why it closely aligns with our inclusion work.

Tichafara Chisaka, September 2022

Queen Elizabeth's coffin is driven in a black hearse covered in flowers, flanked by Queens Guards wearing bearskins and full red military uniforms, plus officials in dark suits.

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“I was at the funeral to represent Sightsavers to honour our departed patron, on behalf of the people we serve, the supporters who make this possible and all our staff across the world.”

Caroline Harper, September 2022

Nora teaches numbers to pre-school children. A child using a wheelchair sits on her left.

Blogs / Education /

Sightsavers’ inclusive education policy officer Takyiwa Danso explains why we’re calling on global leaders to protect the rights of children with disabilities.

Takyiwa Danso, September 2022

A man sits on a stationary motorbike with Saio on the backseat. They are both wearing helmets and surgical masks.

Blogs / Education /

Sightsavers’ Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame shares why inclusion and diversity must be at the heart of discussions at the UN's Transforming Education Summit.

Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame, September 2022

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers’ Aissata Ndiaye and Tichafara Chisaka share some lessons on inclusive data advocacy based on our experiences in Pakistan, Cameroon and Senegal.

Sightsavers, July 2022

Voluntary local review workshop attendees gather outside for a group photo.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers’ Joseph Oye and Aissata Ndiaye share insights and recommendations from the Commune of Maroua I’s review into SDG implementation at the local level.

Sightsavers, July 2022

A large group of people gather together for a photo outside a building. Some people are seated, some are standing and there is a man in a wheelchair at the front of the group.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers’ Joseph Mensah explains how the Ghana Somubi Dwumadie programme is helping to change negative social attitudes and behaviour.

Joseph Mensah, April 2022

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Improving contraceptive choices and bodily autonomy for women and girls with disabilities

How do you rebuild a health system after decades of instability?

How inclusive education can create a more equal and sustainable future

A leap in the right direction: takeaways from the Women Deliver conference

Inclusive data and Sightsavers: an ongoing journey

A good problem: why new training methods are needed to eliminate trachoma

First anger, then action: why you should sign the Feminist Accessibility Protocol

Social behaviour change: a game-changer to reduce stigma

Inclusive, accessible social behaviour change: what it is and how to do it

“In Ghana, the work we began on disability inclusion will continue”

How we’re championing mental health and human rights in Ghana

Why disability-inclusive employment benefits all of us

Why disability rights are integral to the Sustainable Development Goals

How Mali overcame three big challenges and eliminated trachoma

My TED talk helped to protect millions of people from trachoma. Now you can help make history

Lessons from the Boresha Macho eye health programme in Tanzania

How we’re transforming political participation in Cameroon and Senegal

International Women’s Day: our call for inclusive health care

Making assessments more accessible for children with disabilities

On data and disability: piloting the Child Functioning Module in Nigerian schools

A parliamentary caucus on disability issues in Ghana is possible!

Did world leaders do their homework to transform education?

Transforming education: how we’re doing our homework too

Data Values campaign: why we must act now to create a fair data future

“A day I’ll remember all my life”: observations from the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II

Transforming Education Summit: our call for world leaders

We must include students with disabilities in education transformation

How can inclusive data advocacy help us to achieve the SDGs?

How Maroua’s voluntary local review can help Cameroon achieve the SDGs

How inclusion ambassadors are reducing disability stigma and discrimination in Ghana