Stories Archives | Sightsavers

Community volunteer Richard Lowoto with a group of patients and their families seated under a shady tree in Turkana, Kenya.

Stories / Eye health /

In the unforgiving desert landscape of northern Kenya, getting treatment for painful, debilitating eye conditions such as trachoma can be an impossible task.

Nyangan and her granddaughters standing outside their home in Turkana, Kenya.

Stories / Eye health /

Sightsavers’ inclusive eye health programme is making sure older people, women, people with disabilities and those living in rural areas such as Nyangan can get vital eye care.

Volunteer Moses measures a woman's height to see how much medication she needs to protect her from river blindness.

Stories / Fighting disease /

Sightsavers’ Khadijah Bello travelled across north-central Nigeria to see how our programmes are fast-tracking the elimination of neglected tropical diseases.

Stories / Eye health /

When Angeshita regained her independence after her eye operation, so did her family. After caring for her for several years. they are now able to return to school and work, giving them all hope for the future.

An eye health doctor wearing a smart white shirt and sunglasses.

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Learn about one man's mission to make a difference in his community in rural Malawi by training as an eye health specialist. Now, long queues at the eye clinic are a thing of the past.

A female community drug distributor measures a girl to see how much medication she needs to protect her from trachoma.

Stories / Fighting disease /

Now in its sixth year, the Accelerate programme has already delivered 53 million treatments to protect people from trachoma, and managed 91,000 advanced cases of the disease.

Dr Gladys walks with a female health worker, all wearing medical scrubs.

Stories / Eye health /

In Uganda, an inclusive eye health programme has helped to protect people’s vision and build a sustainable eye health system that can be accessed by everyone.

Stories / Eye health /

Zahra is one of the many children now thriving thanks to a Sightsavers programme to screen school students for eye conditions and health problems.

A mother holds and looks at her young son as they stand in front of a brick wall.

Stories / Eye health /

Cataracts are the world’s leading cause of blindness. On World Sight Day, learn what Sightsavers is doing to protect the sight of children with cataracts in Zambia.

A close-up of a woman having her eyes checked for trachoma.

Stories / Eye health /

Benin has become the latest country to eliminate blinding trachoma. Here we meet people whose lives have been transformed, and those who helped to banish the disease.

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Reaching the unreachable

Restoring sight in Uganda: Nyangan’s story

How cultural awareness can help fight NTDs

“I’m a living testimony of cataract surgery”

Eye health hero: Alinafe cuts the queues

“Our programme has transformed communities”

“Everyone deserves quality eye care services”

Bringing eye health into the classroom

Treating cataracts in Zambia: “I know their future is going to be bright”

Trachoma elimination in Benin: “All the pain was gone. It was like a miracle!”

Protecting sight, fighting disease and promoting equality for all