Sightsavers

Founded in 1950, Sightsavers is a charity based in Haywards Heath, United Kingdom working on health, disability, gender equality +1 more.

Sightsavers is an international charity that works to prevent avoidable blindness, treat eye conditions and eliminate diseases that affect sight. It provides eye surgery, trains local eye care workers and surgeons, distributes treatments for diseases such as trachoma and river blindness, and supports people with disabilities and women and girls. It also campaigns for disability rights and inclusion. The organisation operates in more than 30 countries in Africa and Asia, with offices across the world, and was founded in 1950 by Sir John Wilson as the British Empire Society for the Blind.