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SIGHTSAVERS International

For over 50 years, Sightsavers have changed the lives of a great many people in the world's poorest countries. Just to give you an idea of the scale of their work:

1. There are 45 million blind people in the world

2. In 80% of these cases, blindness is totally avoidable. That's nearly 36 million people who have eye conditions that are preventable or curable

3. In cases of irreversible blindness, they help to improve the sufferer's quality of life. It is a fact that we can make a real difference in the world; this is what drives us in all of the work that Sightsavers do.

4. Find out more about how they've helped to save sight and change lives over the past 50 years

5. They work alongside local organisations and governments to teach basic eye care skills and hygiene to adults and children. They help to fund eye screening camps, operations, treatments, education, surgical training, as well as supporting rehabilitation programmes.

6. The effects of their work can be seen in whole communities. They show people how to stop the spread of disease, they also teach adults better eye care for their children, and where children are looking after blind adults, they help them to return to school. In these cases, they restore a feeling of pride and dignity to those who have lost their sight - and work towards giving the sufferers and the people around them a brighter future.

Thanks to Sight Savers and their local partners, nearly 55 million people have been treated for potentially blinding conditions and sight has been restored to 4.75 million individuals.

www.sightsavers.org