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A man rides a bike with a child on the back.

Stories / Education /

Sightsavers’ Ronnie Stapleton visited pre-schools across Malawi to train teachers how to include children with disabilities. She also learned a lot along the way.

A nurse helps wash a woman who has lymphatic filariasis wash her swollen leg.

Stories / Fighting disease /

The Democratic Republic of the Congo may have the highest burdens of neglected tropical diseases, but people on the ground are working to protect communities.

Stories / Eye health /

Sightsavers’ eye health screening project in Pakistan is helping children see and learn all over the country. We listen to stories of some of the children we have helped.

A mother helps her daughter with some school work.

Stories / Eye health /

Six-year-old Khadijah was getting into trouble at school for not being able to do her work. But following an eye operation she can’t wait to learn to read and write.

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

Stories / Eye health /

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

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.

Stories / Eye health /

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.

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.

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Stories

Educating pre-school children when resources are scarce

Caring for patients in Democratic Republic of Congo

Stories from the SHIP eye health project in Pakistan

Khadijah’s story

How soap and superheroes are changing lives

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”

Selben’s story

Postan’s story

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