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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

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Blogs

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

Protecting sight, fighting disease and promoting equality for all