This global community initiative, in partnership with Standard Chartered, aims to tackle inequality and promote economic inclusion among young people with disabilities.
Accelerate aims to support at least 15 countries to eliminate trachoma as a public health risk, and speed up progress in two others by 2027.
This five-year programme is making secondary schools more inclusive and accessible for everyone, especially girls and children with disabilities.
The programme is testing innovative ways to improve economic empowerment and inclusion for people with disabilities, enabling them to earn a living.
The School Health Integrated Programming project, known as SHIP, screens schoolchildren for health problems and refers them for treatment.
We’re improving educational opportunities for children and young people with disabilities in Zambia by increasing access to quality and inclusive education.
Sightsavers advocates for universal health coverage for all, meaning everyone, wherever they live, is able to access quality, affordable health care.
This programme aims to increase access to sexual and reproductive health and rights services for women with disabilities in West and Central Africa.
Sightsavers is pioneering new ways to use technology as part of programmes to tackle avoidable blindness across the world.
We worked with our partners in Ghana and Nigeria to devise new ways to collect valuable data about river blindness, also known as onchocerciasis.
This employment programme provided vocational training courses for people with disabilities in western Uganda, helping to transform attitudes within the local community.
This two-year programme funded trachoma operations, treatment and improved hygiene and sanitation across 10 countries in the Commonwealth.
This project introduced superhero characters to schoolchildren in four African countries to encourage better hygiene, to help eliminate trachoma.
This programme was Sightsavers’ largest multiple neglected tropical disease programme to date. It closed in August 2021.
This 17-year-long project worked to treat avoidable blindness and improve local healthcare. It reached more than 34 million people living in Africa and Asia.
This programme focused on restoring sight and making health services accessible for marginalised groups in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Sightsavers’ trachoma control programme, which came to an end in 2019, helped to protect more than 18 million people.
This six-year UNITED programme, funded by UK aid, delivered more than 158 million treatments in Nigeria to tackle neglected tropical diseases.
Our programme, which ran from 2016 to 2019, provided medication to protect people at risk of river blindness and lymphatic filariasis.
We wanted to ensure that patients visiting our trachoma screening camps could also be treated for other eye conditions.
The project gathered a wealth of valuable data about the world’s trachoma-endemic areas using smartphones.
This pilot project showed that children with and without disabilities can learn together.
The five-year programme provided millions of sight-saving treatments to help eliminate trachoma in seven countries.
Sightsavers’ pilot project in India aimed to ensure that everyone can access eye health services.
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