Something About Company
Sightsavers is one of the world’s leading non-government organisations dedicated to combating avoidable blindness and promoting equal opportunities for people with disabilities in developing countries. We have been working with local partners in over 30 countries in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean for 60 years.
Main activities
Sightsavers supports work promoting eye health, preventing and treating causes of avoidable blindness. We also support people who are irreversibly blind. We have:
- treated over 200 million people for blinding and potentially blinding conditions
- carried out over seven million operations to restore sight
- trained almost 500,000 primary healthcare workers in eye care
- provided rehabilitation training to 91,000 visually impaired people
We work in a sustainable way to promote lasting change. We strengthen existing health systems and local organisations wherever possible, fostering independence and building local capacity to deliver services in the long term. We seek to influence governments through advocacy and by demonstrating scalable and adaptable models of best practice.
