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Stories / Disability and inclusion /

Shamima, who is hearing and speech impaired, has developed a unique way to communicate with her close family.

A surgeon dressed in scrubs prepares for theatre

Stories / Fighting disease /

A decade ago, Turkana had the highest prevalence of trachoma of any county. Now thanks to eye health workers like Elizabeth, the number of cases have been severely reduced.

A woman dressed in traditional clothing poses for the camera. she is blind in her left eye.

Stories / Fighting disease /

Ekeno was experiencing terrible pain in her eyes until her neighbour Susan, a Sightsavers-trained community worker, was able to get her the help she needed.

A dam in the Cascades region, Burkina Faso.

Stories / Fighting disease /

Sightsavers is working towards the elimination of trachoma and river blindness in Burkina Faso, thanks to our partnership with L’Occitane Foundation.

Abdul walking outside his school with a backpack on

Stories / Disability and inclusion /

Abdul is one of many children who has benefited from the Education for All project that aims to give all children with disabilities access to a better quality education.

A man rides a bike with a child on the back.

Stories / Education /

Sightsavers’ Ronnie Stapleton visited pre-schools across Malawi to train teachers how to include children with disabilities. She also learned a lot along the way.

A nurse helps wash a woman who has lymphatic filariasis wash her swollen leg.

Stories / Fighting disease /

The Democratic Republic of the Congo may have the highest burdens of neglected tropical diseases, but people on the ground are working to protect communities.

Stories / Eye health /

Sightsavers’ eye health screening project in Pakistan is helping children see and learn all over the country. We listen to stories of some of the children we have helped.

A mural on a school wall showing five superhero characters.

Stories / Eye health /

Geordie Woods explains how the Super School of Five trachoma prevention programme is protecting school children from this devastating disease.

Stories / Eye health /

Opthalmic nurse Postan Phiri is a popular figure in the communities he visits in rural Zambia, referring patients with cataracts for sight-saving surgery.

Lovemore on a swing smiling after his operation

Stories / Eye health /

In eastern Zambia, Sightsavers’ Corinna May met nine-year-old Lovemore and saw his amazing transformation following sight-saving cataract surgery.

A student covers one eye during an eye test at a school in India.

Stories / Eye health /

Mr Aahiswar is head teacher at Rangai Middle School in central India. He has been trained to screen students for vision problems so children can get the life-changing help they need.

Sightsavers surgeon Aliyu smiles with a group of children.

Stories / Fighting disease /

Aliyu A-Umar, a former trachoma surgeon in Nigeria, has an inspiring way of making people feel at ease about eye care.

Two surgeons at work in the operating theatre at Mymensingh hospital. They're wearing green scrubs.

Stories / Eye health /

Robbie Peacock and Ciara Smullen travelled to the northern town of Mymensingh to visit a hospital that is saving the sight of thousands of people a year.

Stories / Eye health /

Dr Msukwa is an ophthalmologist in southern Malawi. He restores sight through cataract operations, and says his passion is helping children to see again.

A wide shot of the rural landscape in Nasir, South Sudan. The fields are very wet and the grass is a lush green.

Stories / Eye health /

Trachoma, a painful eye disease, can be easily treated with antibiotics. But the challenge is reaching the people who need treatment, particularly if they live in remote areas such as Nadir in South Sudan.

Aluna, Mayasa and Bibi in front of their mud house

Stories / Eye health /

This Mother's Day we wanted to share the story of two mothers, Aluna and Mayasa, who live in a remote community in Tanzania.

Stories / Eye health /

This Mother's Day we wanted to share the story of two mothers, Aluna and Mayasa, from a remote community in Tanzania.

Gladys Atoo in her Doctor's uniform, smiles at the camera

Stories / Eye health /

Gladys Atto is an everyday hero, saving sight and building long-term eye health services in Uganda. She’s one of the talented cataract surgeons whose training you’ve supported.

Staff from Makeni Hospital's eyecare team smile for the camera.

Stories / Eye health /

A group of Sightsavers staff travelled to Makeni Hospital in Sierra Leone to meet the amazing eye care workers your donations are helping to support.

Rebecca takes a selfie with Dorcas, in Nigeria.

Stories / Fighting disease /

In Nigeria, Sightsavers' Rebecca Mintrim joined celebrations for the one billionth NTD treatment.

A women is walking up to the entrance of a building. Men stand around outside.

Stories / Eye health /

Sightsavers CEO Dr Caroline Harper visited Sierra Leone to see how health workers have coped since the Ebola virus.

Rose looking at herself for the first time after cataract surgery.

Stories / Eye health /

Rose is 14 years old, and has been blind since she was a baby. We witness her reaction as she looks in the mirror and sees herself for the first time.

Stories / Fighting disease /

Sightsavers’ Julia Strong visits an eye health outreach project in Tanzania that’s making a huge difference to people in remote communities.

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Stories

Claiming rights and restoring sight: Shamima’s story

Meet Elizabeth, who’s helping to restore sight in Kenya

The friend next door: how Ekeno’s neighbour saved her sight

Treating river blindness in Burkina Faso

Education for all in Sierra Leone

Educating pre-school children when resources are scarce

Caring for patients in Democratic Republic of Congo

Stories from the SHIP eye health project in Pakistan

How soap and superheroes are changing lives

Postan’s story

A childhood restored and a future secured

How we’re training teachers to spot blinding eye conditions

Meet the dancing trachoma surgeon

The hospital in Bangladesh that’s restoring sight and changing lives

Dr Gerald Msukwa

Saving sight in the world’s most remote locations

For US - Forgotten moms

Forgotten mums

Gladys’s story

Meeting Sierra Leone’s miracle workers

The personal stories behind Sightsavers’ billionth milestone

Back from the brink: how Sierra Leone is recovering from Ebola

Watch as Rose sees herself for the first time after cataract surgery

Reaching out to remote communities