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Sightsavers surgeon Aliyu smiles with a group of children.

Stories / Fighting disease /

Aliyu A-Umar, a former trachoma surgeon in Nigeria, has an inspiring way of making people feel at ease about eye care.

Stories / Disability and inclusion /

Charles Ahumuza, who is partially sighted, reveals how Sightsavers' inclusive employment programme in Uganda has helped him to fulfil his childhood dream of becoming an electrician.

Two surgeons at work in the operating theatre at Mymensingh hospital. They're wearing green scrubs.

Stories / Eye health /

Robbie Peacock and Ciara Smullen travelled to the northern town of Mymensingh to visit a hospital that is saving the sight of thousands of people a year.

Eye surgeon, Doctor Msukwa in his scrubs at a hospital in Malawi.

Stories / Eye health /

Dr Msukwa is an ophthalmologist in southern Malawi. He restores sight through cataract operations, and says his passion is helping children to see again.

A wide shot of the rural landscape in Nasir, South Sudan. The fields are very wet and the grass is a lush green.

Stories / Eye health /

Trachoma, a painful eye disease, can be easily treated with antibiotics. But the challenge is reaching the people who need treatment, particularly if they live in remote areas such as Nadir in South Sudan.

Jacob and Moses outside their village in Nigeria.

Stories / Fighting disease /

Meet Jacob and Moses, who are working together to protect their community from diseases such as river blindness.

A sightsavers 4x4 crosses a rickety bridge over a river in River Sess County, Liberia.

Stories / Fighting disease /

Lincoln Gankpala, from the Liberian Ministry of Health, shares his experience of treating river blindness before, during and after the devastating Ebola outbreak that claimed thousands of lives.

An eye health team on motorbikes travel across a dusty remote landscape dotted with trees and huts.

Stories / Fighting disease /

Sightsavers’ Jo Howard travels across rural Tanzania with an eye health team to see how far they must go to treat trachoma in the most remote communities.

Aluna, Mayasa and Bibi in front of their mud house

Stories / Eye health /

This Mother's Day we wanted to share the story of two mothers, Aluna and Mayasa, from a remote community in Tanzania.

Two young girls sitting together and smiling.

Stories / Disability and inclusion /

One day Seynabou heard a visiting teacher talk about an inclusive school for children with disabilities, and she jumped at the chance to go.

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Stories

Meet the dancing trachoma surgeon

Charles’s story

The hospital in Bangladesh that’s restoring sight and changing lives

Dr Gerald Msukwa

Saving sight in the world’s most remote locations

The father and son fighting tropical diseases in Nigeria

Liberia five years on: saving sight in the aftermath of Ebola

Reaching Ruangwa: an epic journey to help save sight

Forgotten mums

Seynabou’s story

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