Education Archives | Sightsavers

Minahil, who wears spectacles, smiles broadly as she sits at her classroom desk.

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We attended the conference in Chicago on 22-26 March to share Sightsavers’ expertise, engage with the education community and explore how we can help to transform inclusive education.

March 2025

Three partners sit at a table with table name badges in front of them.

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With Sightsavers’ support, the government of Cameroon has adopted a policy to deliver equitable inclusive education for people with disabilities.

November 2024

Two school students in Zambia huddle together at a desk. One is writing, the other is looking at the work.

News / Education /

We attended the conference in Miami on 6-14 March to share our expertise, engage with the education community and explore how we can transform inclusive education.

March 2024

Nora teaching Glory, one of her students, how to count.

News / Education /

Sightsavers’ education, research and policy teams will join the global education community at the UKFIET international education conference on 12-14 September in Oxford, UK.

August 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

News / Education /

In February 2023, Sightsavers will present at the Comparative and International Education Society conference in Washington DC.

February 2023

A teacher in Nigeria outs her arm on a student's shoulders as they stand at the blackboard.

Stories / Education /

In Nigeria and Kenya, two innovative education projects are enabling children with disabilities to reach their potential.

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

A group of young children playing on a climbing frame outside a school

News / Education /

The global campaign calls on leaders attending the UN’s Transforming Education Summit to take urgent action on inclusive education.

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

A boy with crutches sits with his friends in the playground during lunch break at school in Senegal.

Stories / Education /

Every child deserves the opportunity to reach their full potential. Your donations are helping to train teachers so they can welcome children with visual impairments and other disabilities into the classroom.

An illustration from the Put Us in the Picture website, featuring a woman with blonde hair wearing glasses next t a colourful wheel of fortune.

News / Education /

The Put Us in the Picture website teaches schoolchildren in Ireland about inclusive education and disability in low income countries.

February 2022

Stories / Education /

An inclusive education project in Malawi is challenging stigma and changing lives by enabling young children with disabilities to attend pre-school alongside their peers.

A young girl raising her hand in a classroom.

Blogs / Education /

As leaders from more than 80 countries gathered at the summit, Sightsavers highlighted the need for policy commitments on the rights of children with disabilities.

Sightsavers, August 2021

Lesline and classmates at school in Cameroon

News / Education /

As the Global Education Summit began in London this week, Sightsavers renewed its pressure on global leaders to ensure children with disabilities can receive an education.

July 2021

Three young children huddle together at an inclusive school in Zambia. Behind them on the wall are the vowels A, E, I, O, U.

Education / Reports /

This document outlines Sightsavers’ strategic direction in education. It sets out our goals, objectives, and the system-strengthening approach that will enable us to achieve them.

Stories / Education /

In Mali, a Sightsavers project is ensuring children with disabilities are able to learn alongside their peers. Students, teachers and parents describe how the project has made a difference.

A man wearing a blue shirt stands outside of a school.

Stories / Education /

To find out the challenges of teaching children, particularly those with disabilities, during health crises we spoke with Abdul Kandeh Turay, a teacher in Rokulan, Sierra Leone.

Stories / Education /

In Sierra Leone, children with disabilities are often considered not worth educating. We've worked with schools to make sure these children are not left behind.

Two girls with visual impairments in a school.

Stories / Education /

As part of Sightsavers' inclusive education project, which supports children with visual impairments across Mali, we’ve worked with linguistic expert Dr Issiaka Ballo to translate braille into the local language for the first time.

Student Ariane smiles at her desk while wearing her new glasses.

Education / Reports /

To ensure every child has access to quality education, this policy briefing recommends all stakeholders work together to reform education systems.

A girl uses a typewriter while wearing a face mask.

Stories / Education /

Sightsavers project officer Eric Musa visits Marie, who has been blind since birth, to find out how she’s continued her education during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A boy using a phone with his father sitting behind.

Stories / Education /

Sightsavers staff provide a first-hand insight into the five ways we’re making sure children with disabilities aren’t left behind during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A girl raises her hand in class to answer a question.

News / Education /

A Sightsavers report on education for children with visual impairments in sub-Saharan Africa has been published as a background paper to the 2020 Global Education Monitoring Report.

July 2020

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Help your children to colour in the sheets and learn that all children, regardless of disability or gender, should be able to attend school.

A young girl sitting on the ground outside.

Education / Reports /

This leaflet provides an overview of our education work which promotes inclusive, lifelong learning opportunities for all children, leaving no child behind.

A school student has her eyes tested while wearing optical glasses: an eye health worker's hand is changing the lenses in the glasses.

Education / Eye health /

The purpose of these guidelines is to provide direction to those planning and implementing vision screening programmes as a part of eye health initiatives within the education sector.

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Sightsavers at the CIES education conference 2025

Cameroon approves landmark inclusive education policy

Sightsavers at the CIES education conference 2024

Sightsavers to share expertise on inclusive education at global conference

Making assessments more accessible for children with disabilities

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

Sightsavers at the CIES global education conference 2023

Transforming education for every child in Kenya and Nigeria

Did world leaders do their homework to transform education?

Transforming education: how we’re doing our homework too

#DoYourHomework campaign aims to transform inclusive education

Transforming Education Summit: our call for world leaders

We must include students with disabilities in education transformation

In Senegal, we’re ensuring all children are able to go to school

Sightsavers Ireland’s education site wins Website of the Year award

Education, not discrimination: Malawi’s inclusive pre-schools

Global Education Summit: what did Sightsavers’ Equal World campaign call for?

‘Don’t fail us’: Sightsavers calls on leaders to address the global learning crisis

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

How inclusive education is transforming lives

Teacher Abdul’s experience of Ebola and COVID-19 in Sierra Leone

Voices from Sierra Leone: The experiences of girls with disabilities at school

How Sightsavers has helped to adapt braille into Mali’s local language

Promoting inclusive education for girls and boys with disabilities in West and Central Africa policy brief summary

“Without education, my future would be more difficult”

Programme staff explain how we’re supporting children's learning during lockdown

Sightsavers contributes to Global Education Monitoring Report

Downloadable colouring pages

A quick guide to Sightsavers’ inclusive education work

Guidelines for school-based eye health programmes