United Kingdom What we do How to help Submit search Search the site DONATE Save children from agony Every day, children around the world are going blind from eye conditions and diseases that are easily preventable. Your generosity can help give them the care they desperately need. If you are reading this, you have probably seen our TV adverts of children like Kudarai or Rukkaya who were needlessly going blind. Or perhaps you may have seen our TV advert featuring Jeremiah – an ophthalmic nurse working with Sightsavers to help protect his community against trachoma. As Jeremiah says it’s important to take action now before trachoma cruelly takes away the future of even more children. Though difficult to watch, we have to stand up for these children and share their stories with you. Kudarai was just two years old when he was diagnosed with blinding trachoma. This excruciating disease turns the eyelashes inwards so they scratch against the eyeball. Every blink is agony. Without treatment, trachoma could have stolen Rukkaya’s sight completely and destroyed her hopes for the future. Children with trachoma are often unable to go to school. Without an education, they can grow up with no way to make an income – and with no escape from a lifetime of poverty. This is heart-breaking, especially when treatment is straightforward and affordable. Just €5 could protect a classroom full of children from the pain of trachoma. Please donate to Sightsavers. We urgently need your help to find children like Kudarai and Rukkaya and give them hope for the future. You can help change a child's life I would like to give a monthly one-off monthly gift: £5 £8 £13 could treat 20 children with an active trachoma infection. £ Enter custom donation amount, minimum £ 2, maximum £ 10,000 Donate £8 a month You can help a child have a brighter future today DONATE How your money can make a difference Eye health screenings Community eye screenings help us reach children in some of the most remote areas of the world. A health worker will check each child's eyes to see if they need treatment. Life-changing surgery Operations to treat cataracts and trachoma can take less than an hour. Your donations can help us to train eye doctors and health workers, and pay for sight-saving surgeries. Will you help save a child's sight? I would like to give a monthly one-off monthly gift to Sightsavers: £5 could provide enough antibiotics to protect a classroom of 28 children against trachoma. £8 could pay for enough ointment to treat 20 children like Rukkaya suffering from trachoma. £13 could pay for three sight-saving operations a year on patients with advanced trachoma. £ Enter custom donation amount, minimum £ 2, maximum £ 10,000 Donate £8 a month Join in: Join in: Twitter Join in: Facebook Join in: YouTube Join in: Instagram Join in: LinkedIn Protecting sight and fighting for disability rights Accessibility Research centre Our policies Media centre Contact us Jobs Cookies and privacy Terms and conditions Modern slavery Safeguarding COVID-19 © 2021 Sightsavers. Registered charity numbers 207544 and SC038110 We’d like your consent Sightsavers want to give you a great experience on our website, tell as many people about our work as possible, and help change the lives of as many people as we can. Learn more Accept all cookiesDecline and manage cookies