Sightsavers
Fighting blindness worldwide
Sightsavers combats blindness in developing countries, restoring sight through specialist treatment and eye care. Sightsavers also supports people who are irreversibly blind by providing education, counselling and training.
Sightsavers works with local partners in 34 countries to ensure that services are developed to help those in greatest need. During its 60 years of operation, Sightsavers has helped to restore sight to more than five million people and treat over 100 million for potentially blinding conditions.
Support from the Anglo American Group Foundation has enabled Sightsavers to carry out work across Africa, including in Mali, Tanzania and Senegal. In Mali, the funding paid for training of eye care workers so that they were able to recognise and cure conditions such as cataracts, trachoma and childhood blindness.
In Tanzania, funding enabled Sightsavers to improve facilities at under-resourced health facilities and train local health workers to conduct eye screening. Community-based eye screening can provide an early warning for serious conditions that can lead to blindness, ensuring that people receive specialist help and preventing blindness.
Sightsavers has also received funding from the Anglo American Group Foundation to initiate an eye care project in Boké, Guinea-Conakry. This funding has enabled the renovation and equipping of an eye care unit at Boké hospital. A three-year funding commitment will contribute to the development of human resources, alongside screening, prevention and curative services, combating conditions such as cataract, trachoma and river blindness. This funding will enable Sightsavers and its partners to reach 1,500,000 people in the communities in and around Boké.
Sightsavers is looking forward to continuing its collaboration with the Anglo American Group Foundation.
To find out more please visit www.sightsavers.org
Registered UK Charity number: 207544.
