Sightsavers
URI(s)
Variants
- Sight Savers
- Sight Savers International
- Sightsavers International
Additional Information
Associated Locale
- London (England)
Field of Activity
(lcsh) Blindness--Prevention
(lcsh) People with disabilities--Civil rights
Additional Related Forms
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
- found: Sight Savers news, Winter/spring 2001:t.p. (Sight Savers, Sight Savers International)
- found: Sightsavers www site, 11 Jan. 2007:Who we are page (Sightsavers)
- found: Kaba, Mamoudou Kabala Kabiné. Une famille dans la tourmente, 2023:page 4 of cover (the author was head of projects of Sightsavers International in Guinea)
- found: Sightsavers website, June 21, 2023:banner (Sightsavers, logo of two yellow circles overlapping vertically) footer (Sightsavers, Inc, business address for correspondence in Boston, MA) About Sightsavers (works in more than 30 countries to prevent avoidable blindness and fight for the rights of people with disabilities) Our history (John Wilson was blinded at age 13 in 1931 by an explosion during a chemistry lesson at Scarborough High School for Boys in the UK; studied law at Oxford and began work at the National Institute for the Blind; he did a 9-month tour of Africa and the Middle East in 1946, and was shocked at the scale of blindness and the conditions that blind people were living in; in 1950 Sir John founded the British Empire Society for the Blind, the original name for Sightsavers; formed national organisations for blind people in 6 countries in its first year, concentrating on education, rehabilitation and welfare; name changed in 1957 to the Commonwealth Society for the Blind; given royal status by Queen Elizabeth a year later, becoming the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind (RCSB); in 1971 the organisation moved from London to a new head office in Haywards Heath, southern UK; in 1986 British children's TV programme Blue Peter launched its 'Sight Saver' appeal, raising more than £2 million for eye care across Africa; the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind then adopted the title Sightsavers; led a consortium to set up the Global Trachoma Mapping Project (GTMP), 2012-2015; in December 2017 it celebrated its one billionth treatment for neglected tropical diseases)
- found: Afr. Reg. Wkshop for Eastern and Southern Africa on Rehabilitation of the Visually Impaired (1986 : Harare, Zimbabwe). Report ... 1986 or 1987:t.p. (Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind (RCSB))
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Change Notes
- 2007-01-11: new
- 2023-06-25: revised
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