Sightsavers is a global development organisation that has been working in India since 1966 to eliminate avoidable blindness and to ensure that people who are irreversibly blind are supported adequately to lead lives of independence and dignity. Over the past five decades, Sightsavers has reached out to over 55 million people with potential eye problems to date. We work with partner organisations across major states in India bringing eye healthcare, educational support, counselling, training, and leadership development to visually impaired people in some of the least served areas of the country. We work in a sustainable way to promote lasting change by strengthening existing health systems, seeking to advocate with and influence governments and by demonstrating best practices. We network with like-minded organisations to enable the exchange of ideas and to advocate for the rights of the disabled. Sightsavers believes in promoting technologies in eye healthcare enabling a wider reach of health services in India. Mission : We are an international organisation working with partners in developing countries to eliminate avoidable blindness and promote equality of opportunity for disabled people. Vision : Sightsavers’ vision is of a world where no one is blind from avoidable causes and where visually impaired people participate equally in society

• Sightsavers is one of the few organisations working to promote eye health care sustainably and bring a long-lasting impact on the lives of people with disabilities
• Its various programmes align with the Global and National agenda of reinforcing progressive eye care system. It subsumes various aspects such as raising awareness about eye health, training health care workers, school-teachers, and community volunteers and strengthening their capacities
• Works in 8 priority states (Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal) and 100 districts
• It also works with drivers and promotes road safety & awareness about the relationship between good vision and road safety, including an understanding of basic eye care and the use of spectacles
• Concept of High impact districts to reduce prevalence of blindness to <0.3% of the population by 2025 in alignment with principle of “universal eye health coverage”.

• Detailed strategy laying out multi-year projects to build sustainable programme models supported by multiple corporates and in some cases adopted by the Government in our states of operation
• Focus on collaborating with various departments of the state governments to scale up operations for Social Inclusion, Inclusive Education and Eye Health — our three core areas of work
• Evidence-based strategy aided by case studies, impact reports with timely project updates to the partners for individual projects
• Working with a broad range of partners — eye hospitals, non-government organisations, the Government, community-based organisations, centres of excellence, and membership-based organisations
• Network with like-minded organisations to enable an exchange of ideas and to advocate for the rights of the disabled.