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Stories / Disability and inclusion /

This husband and wife team are helping us locate and support people with disabilities in Bangladesh.

Volunteers demonstrate the importance of washing hands.

Stories / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers staff around India are making sure that during the pandemic, nobody should be excluded because of disability or gender.

A woman stands next to a man sitting in a chair. Both wear face masks.

News / Disability and inclusion /

The Equal World COVID-19 petition was launched in response to reports from around the world of the disproportionate impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on people with disabilities.

May 2020

News / Disability and inclusion /

Global health leaders have been urged to make sure people with disabilities are not discriminated against during the COVID-19 pandemic, and are able to access the healthcare they need.

May 2020

Three women communicate using sign language.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

If you are an organisation working to support the COVID-19 pandemic response, here are our top nine tips to ensure people with disabilities are not left behind.

Andrea Pregel, May 2020

Disability and inclusion / Reports /

In the immediate- and long-term response, it is vital that all development partners take steps to strengthen health systems that are disability-inclusive.

Shikuku Obosi sits, smiling at the camera.

News / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers’ disability inclusion adviser, Shikuku Obosi, urges journalists and government officials to use disability-friendly language when discussing COVID-19 in a new comment piece published in the media.

April 2020

A girl with deafblindness plays with her siblings.

Stories / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers and Sense International supported 14-year-old Hellen and her family from Masindi, Uganda, by helping them communicate with each other and support themselves financially.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Alice Nabbanja from Sense International explains how the organisation has been working with Sightsavers in Uganda supporting young people with deafblindness and complex disabilities.

Sightsavers, April 2020

A group of Disabled Person Organisation (DPO) representatives meet in Nairobi, Kenya for advocacy training and planning as part of the Inclusive Futures initiative.

Blogs / Disability and inclusion /

Sightsavers' Andrea Pregel talks through the highlights of a Twitter chat around disability and COVID-19.

Andrea Pregel, April 2020

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Disability and inclusion

Mapping via motorbike

Supporting people with disabilities in India during COVID-19

Sightsavers launches COVID-19 disability rights petition

Sightsavers calls on global health leaders to stop discrimination amid COVID-19

We must make the COVID-19 response inclusive for people with disabilities. Here’s how.

Guidance for including people with disabilities in responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

"We need to change the language around COVID-19."

“As a parent, to see your child happy is as much as you can ask”

Supporting youth with deafblindness in Uganda

#DisabilityC19 Twitter chat

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