As an eye health professional, you are uniquely placed to help Sightsavers protect sight worldwide. Join us and make a lasting difference.
As an eye health professional, you are uniquely placed to help Sightsavers protect sight worldwide. Join us and make a lasting difference.
Worldwide, 2.2 billion people have a visual impairment, but almost half of this is preventable or treatable.
Sightsavers works in more than 30 countries to treat eye conditions such as cataracts and debilitating eye diseases. We want everybody to be able to get eye treatment when they need it, regardless of who they are or where they live.
Since our work began in 1950, we’ve helped to carry out 11.8 million sight-saving operations and screened more than 216 million people for eye conditions.
But to continue our vital work, we need your support.
As an eye health professional, you have a unique insight into the challenges of saving sight. By partnering with Sightsavers, you can make a difference, one operation, examination and treatment at a time.
As a Sightsavers eye health partner, you can help us achieve amazing things while carrying out your own important eye health work.
By supporting us to raise funds and awareness, you’re showing your customers, patients and your local community just how much eye health means to you as an optical professional.
When you become an eye health partner, you’ll receive the following benefits:
We’re delighted to be recognised for our work, and hope it helps our partners feel confident that we’re spending our funds wisely.
Our latest awardsTo get involved in our mission to protect sight, contact us:
James Lwanda: +44 (0)1444 718109
Rob King: +44 (0)1444 446676
Email [email protected]
Sightsavers is at the 100% Optical conference in London on 24-26 February, to raise awareness about avoidable blindness and invite eye health professionals to help protect sight worldwide.
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Sightsavers’ Hortance Manjo shares insights from the event in Zambia, which highlighted eye health for the first time.
Four-year-old Lanoi was suffering with trachoma. With the help of eye health workers and volunteers, she received treatment to end the pain of trachoma.
Eye health has an impact on numerous Sustainable Development Goals, and has a ripple effect that improves gender equity, education, economic and health outcomes.
Everyone will require eye care services at some point in life, but universal health coverage cannot be achieved unless all people have affordable access to the eye care they need.