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Two-year-old Nalukena smiles broadly with a group of other children.

News / Fundraising /

The End is in Sight campaign, which launched in February 2019, benefited from the government’s UK Aid Match fund, which matched all donations pound for pound for the first three months.

September 2019

Six children's dolls lined up in a field

News / Fundraising /

A range of disability-inclusive dolls has been launched to teach children about disability, with 10 per cent of the sales from each doll donated to Sightsavers and other charities.

September 2019

A close up photograph of someone's hand running over a sheet of braille.

News / Disability and inclusion /

It has become the latest country to ratify the Marrakesh Treaty, which allows exceptions to standard copyright laws so books can be reproduced in braille and other accessible formats.

September 2019

News / Fighting disease /

The video, introduced by newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky, includes a segment on Sightsavers' work to tackle schistosomiasis in Guinea-Bissau.

September 2019

Muhammed, who has lymphatic filariasis, with health worker Suraji in Nigeria.

News / Fighting disease /

The Ascend programme, which Sightsavers is leading, aims to tackle six of the world’s worst diseases in 25 countries.

September 2019

Ruby Hammer using a tablet to test the cataract simulator.

News / Eye health /

Broadcaster Fiona Phillips, TV doctor Dr Sara Kayat and celebrity make-up artist Ruby Hammer tried the simulator as part of a push to raise awareness about sight loss.

September 2019

News / Fighting disease /

A team from ‘La Vie’, BBC Africa’s French-language health programme, followed the story of two women from Benin as they had surgery for blinding trachoma.

September 2019

A local health worker hands medication to a woman as another health worker looks on.

News / Fighting disease /

Antibiotics were distributed in the Menia region of northern Egypt, where nearly 10 per cent of children aged one to nine had symptoms of the disease.

September 2019

Children celebrate at school leading up to the one billionth NTD treatment.

News / Fighting disease /

The disease has been banished from key areas of Nigeria where it was once endemic, bringing it one step closer to being eliminated.

August 2019

Teachers in Pakistan attend training to learn how to check their students' eyes.

News /

A round-up of the latest work that your donations help to support, including news from Nigeria, Mozambique, Pakistan and India.

August 2019

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News

UK aid boosts Sightsavers’ fundraising to prevent avoidable blindness

Inclusive dolls will help raise money for Sightsavers

Tanzania joins the push to make accessible books more widely available

Sightsavers’ work to fight disease features in new video

New health programme will protect 200 million people from disease

Celebrities experience the effects of cataracts using Sightsavers simulator

BBC Africa films first trachoma operations in Benin

Nearly 300,000 people given medication in Egypt during first mass trachoma campaign

Nigerian hotspot declared free from river blindness

August 2019 updates: highlights from around the world

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