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Education resources

We want to ensure children with disabilities have the best start in life and can go to school alongside their peers.

We work with local and national partners to promote inclusive, quality education, giving all children the chance to go to school. Through our learning, and our work with our partners and communities, we have published the reports, guides and videos below.

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Videos

Inclusive education in Senegal

This video of our pilot project in Senegal shows children with and without disabilities learning together in mainstream schools. This project was funded by Irish Aid. Images from the documentary ‘Agora braille’, directed by Mame Woury Thioubou. © 2016 www.dynamoproduction.fr
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Reports and guides

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A quick guide to Sightsavers’ inclusive education work

This leaflet provides an overview of our education work which promotes inclusive, lifelong learning opportunities for all children, leaving no child behind.

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Sightsavers inclusive education strategy: championing every child’s right to education

This document outlines Sightsavers’ strategic direction in education. It sets out our goals, objectives, and the system-strengthening approach that will enable us to achieve them.

Student Ariane smiles at her desk while wearing her new glasses.

Promoting inclusive education for girls and boys with disabilities in West and Central Africa policy brief summary

To ensure every child has access to quality education, this policy briefing recommends all stakeholders work together to reform education systems.

Illustration of children with disabilities playing outside of a prre-school in Malawi.

Training flipchart for the inclusion of children with disabilities in pre-schools in Malawi

A course designed for caregivers on the inclusion of young children with disabilities in community-based childhood care centres in Malawi.

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Inclusive education for children with disabilities: teacher training pack

The purpose of this training pack is to develop the capacity of teachers to make their schools and classrooms more inclusive for children with disabilities.

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Inclusive teaching and learning for children with visual impairments

This guide identifies ways in which children with visual impairments (children who are blind and children with low vision) can be included in mainstream schools in sub-Saharan Africa.

An illustration of a man and boy with albinism in a canoe.

Albinism guide

A guide for teachers and parents of children with albinism, in English and French.

Learn how we’re supporting children to learn

Inclusive education

Blogs on inclusive education

Twelve-year-old Arthur smiles as he stands next to his teacher, Mr Thompson. They stand in front of a chalk board in a classroom.
Sightsavers blog

Child eye health is key to wellbeing and accessing education

In line with World Sight Day’s focus on child eye health, our experts reveal why eye screenings in schools are boosting students’ academic performance.

Sightsavers, September 2024
Johannes Trimmel
Sightsavers blog

The key to inclusive education is engaging organisations of people with disabilities

Collaborating with disability groups has earned the Inclusive Futures consortium a Zero Project Award in 2024.

Johannes Trimmel, February 2024
Mariana Rudge.
Sightsavers blog

How inclusive education can create a more equal and sustainable future

As learners with disabilities are disproportionately affected by global crises such as climate change, we're urging governments to build more resilient education systems for everyone.

Mariana Rudge, September 2023
Veronica Stapleton.
Sightsavers blog

Making assessments more accessible for children with disabilities

How an evaluation tool to assess children’s development has been adapted for young children with disabilities in Kenya.

Veronica Stapleton, February 2023
Gillian Mackay and Liesbeth Roolvink.
Sightsavers blog

On data and disability: piloting the Child Functioning Module in Nigerian schools

Sightsavers’ Liesbeth Roolvink and Gillian Mackay share learnings from the SMILE project in Nigeria, where a new questionnaire is being used in schools to assess children’s educational needs.

Sightsavers, February 2023
Mariana Rudge.
Sightsavers blog

Did world leaders do their homework to transform education?

Sightsavers’ Mariana Rudge shares how world leaders at the Transforming Education Summit responded to our call to take action on inclusive education.

Mariana Rudge, October 2022
A young boy sits at a desk in a classroom, writing in an exercise book. A teacher stands next to him offering guidance.
Sightsavers blog

Transforming education: how we’re doing our homework too

Sightsavers’ Liesbeth Roolvink shares the work we’re doing in programme countries to help transform education systems so that all children can go to school.

Liesbeth Roolvink, October 2022
Nora teaches numbers to pre-school children. A child using a wheelchair sits on her left.
Sightsavers blog

Transforming Education Summit: our call for world leaders

Sightsavers’ inclusive education policy officer Takyiwa Danso explains why we’re calling on global leaders to protect the rights of children with disabilities.

Takyiwa Danso, September 2022
A man sits on a stationary motorbike with Saio on the backseat. They are both wearing helmets and surgical masks.
Sightsavers blog

We must include students with disabilities in education transformation

Sightsavers’ Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame shares why inclusion and diversity must be at the heart of discussions at the UN's Transforming Education Summit.

Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame, September 2022
A young girl raising her hand in a classroom.
Sightsavers blog

Global Education Summit: what did Sightsavers’ Equal World campaign call for?

As leaders from more than 80 countries gathered at the summit, Sightsavers highlighted the need for policy commitments on the rights of children with disabilities.

Sightsavers, August 2021
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Sightsavers blog

Building back inclusively after COVID-19

COVID-19 has shown the need for systems to accommodate the new risks we face. Why not take the opportunity to build them back in a way that is inclusive?

Imran Khan, July 2020
A girl with deafblindness plays with her siblings.
Sightsavers blog

Supporting youth with deafblindness in Uganda

Alice Nabbanja from Sense International explains how the organisation has been working with Sightsavers in Uganda supporting young people with deafblindness and complex disabilities.

Sightsavers, April 2020