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Disabled People’s Organisation leaders, Sightsavers staff and medical practitioners workers outside a hospital along with Camilo Morreira.

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Through Sightsavers’ inclusive health project in Nampula, Camilo Morreira shares his work to ensure that health care facilities are accessible for people with disabilities.

Camilo Morreira, April 2019

A group of people stand together outside, talking.

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If people with disabilities cannot make their voices heard, they will be systematically excluded from access to services. It would make a huge difference if their needs and ideas were considered from the very beginning.

Laurène Leclercq, April 2019

People sitting watching a speaker who is a wheelchair user, with a sign language translator standing next to her.

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Sightsavers has launched a global campaign calling on the United Nations to ensure that the work of all its agencies is fully inclusive of people with disabilities.

March 2019

Three women, one of whom is using a wheelchair, holding up signs reading '#EqualUN for an equal world'.

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Globally, it’s recognised that people with disabilities are vulnerable to being left behind in efforts to eradicate poverty. Yet there’s still not enough progress being made.

Tessa Murphy, March 2019

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Disability ambassador Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame remembers Grace Preko, her friend, sister and role model who showed her there was life after blindness.

Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame, March 2019

Two young girls sitting together and smiling.

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

A woman in a pink headscarf smiling at the camera.

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“I met so many children with disabilities who were not going to school and there was no institution to welcome them. So I started fighting for that aim.”

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We first met Mbathio in 2015 at an inclusive school in Dakar, Senegal. Read her story and find out how she’s getting on four years later.

Old black and white photo showing a group of young men on a mountain slope.

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On 20 February 1969, Sightsavers supported men with visual impairments on an expedition to raise awareness about blindness.

February 2019

An old black and white photo shows two people standing on a vast mountain landscape covered in snow.

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The extraordinary story of a group of men with visual impairments from Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in February 1969.

Maria Fsadni, February 2019

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Disability and inclusion

“Nothing about us without us”: improving access to health care in Mozambique

Four takeaways from the Zero project in Vienna

Sightsavers launches global #EqualUN campaign

Why we’re calling for an equal UN

“Grace gave me the courage to empower people with disabilities”

Seynabou’s story

Khady’s story

Mbathio’s story

Sightsavers marks 50th anniversary of Mount Kilimanjaro expedition

“We have met fear, and we have conquered it!”

Protecting sight, fighting disease and promoting equality for all