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A group of students in blue uniforms, wearing paper masks on their heads.

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

A group of women walk underneath a Sightsavers sign which reads: Screening camp.

Stories / Eye health /

In this rural mangrove region of eastern India, one in 50 people used to be blind. But a Sightsavers project has transformed eye health in the area, changing thousands of lives.

Stories / Eye health /

Sightsavers India is partnering with hospitals, tapping into existing eye care systems and creating new ones to provide affordable eye care for people living in some of the poorest areas of the country.

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Sightsavers' Kate McCoy spent three days at a noisy roadside truck stop to see how Sightsavers is helping truck drivers to get the vital eye treatment they need.

Trachoma patient Mariam outside her home in Benin.

Stories / Fighting disease /

Sightsavers’ Katya Mira witnessed the first round of eye operations in Benin to treat blinding trachoma, and saw three women’s lives transformed.

Mercia laughs and celebrates with a trachoma surgery patient after her bandages have been removed.

Stories / Eye health /

Mercia, from Mozambique, has worked at Sightsavers since 2010, and is determined to make sure everyone can get good-quality eye care.

Selben smiles with a group of health staff in Nigeria.

Stories / Eye health /

Selben is an ophthalmologist who works for Sightsavers in Kaduna, Nigeria. She manages our programmes and makes sure people are treated for potentially blinding eye conditions.

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.

Gladys writing in her exercise book at school.

Stories / Appeals /

Gladys loved going to school. But when an accident damaged her eye, her deteriorating vision meant she was forced to stay at home. Thanks to Sightsavers, she's now back in the classroom and is excelling in her studies.

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How soap and superheroes are changing lives

Halving blindness in the remote Sundarbans

Eye care for everyone in India

Roadside eye care: helping Indian truckers stay safe behind the wheel

“I want to be able to dance again”

Mercia’s story

Selben’s story

Postan’s story

A childhood restored and a future secured

Free from cataracts, and back at school!

Protecting sight, fighting disease and promoting equality for all