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Fund raising total

Grand total: £3.34m ($5.18m) This includes matching pledges from Standard Chartered Bank and from the British government
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Appeal earns £3.34m for Sightsavers

Standard Chartered, UK government and special fund-raising events help direct donations from FT readers and supporters of Sightsavers to reach multi-million pound mark

FT Seasonal Appeal: Focus on a brighter future

Blindness is a blight on the developing world – yet most cases are preventable. Sightsavers is supported by this year’s FT seasonal appeal

FT Seasonal Appeal: Sightsavers

Frederick Studemann meets a three-year-old cataract sufferer in Bangladesh, where Sightsavers funds life-changing surgery

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FT Seasonal Appeal 2011

Blindness affects millions in developing countries – yet 80 per cent of cases are preventable. Frederick Studemann meets a young patient in Bangladesh where Sightsavers funds life-changing surgery

Three-year old cataracts sufferer Erina Hossain

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A better life in sight

Frederick Studemann meets a three-year-old cataract sufferer in Bangladesh, where Sightsavers funds life-changing surgery

FT Sightsavers MBA Challenge

Call to students to enter the FT Sightsavers MBA challenge and find innovative solutions for the visually impaired

Charity helps farmer bring home bacon

Donated sow and her litter of piglets provide valuable source of income for visually impaired Nigerian

Banking on better sight

Frederick Studemann on Sightsavers in action to deliver eyecare to people in India’s slums

The day a drug company boss saw the light

FT seasonal appeal: Roy Vagelos, the former chief executive of Merck, describes his decision to give away a medicine for river blindness

Corporate insights clarify Sightsavers’ vision

The ex-energy trader who heads the eyecare charity has used her business experience to help it adapt in a changing global economy

FT Seasonal Appeal: Income supports

Providing the means for the visually impaired to be economically active is one of the core activities of Sightsavers, writes Frederick Studemann

FT appeal: Eyes on the prize

Frederick Studemann visits the Sundarban islands of West Bengal in India, where an eye care centre is bringing a brighter future to many

Sightsavers sees clear path to local handover

Charity’s focus on training means its programme in Nigeria’s Kaduna state is now deemed ready to be handed over to the regional government

FT Seasonal Appeal: The right to sight

Frederick Studemann on blindness in Bangladesh

Kenyan breaks down work barriers

Pushing governments to ease the way for greater inclusion of the visually impaired in the workplace is a core activity of Sightsavers,

Seasonal appeal: Smart goals

Developing effective visual aids and learning tools for the blind is one of the practical activities of Sightsavers, writes Frederick Studemann

Indian diabetics spur need for eye surgery

India, a country of 1.2bn people and the world’s largest consumer of sugar, has the biggest concentration of diabetes sufferers in the world

Sightsavers eyes wider disease prevention

In the Nigerian village of Galadi, a grass-roots distribution system developed by Sightsavers has been expanded to treat other diseases

FT Seasonal Appeal: Visionary figures

John and Jean Wilson’s fact-finding mission to nothern Ghana in the 1950s was a defining moment for Sightsavers, writes Frederick Studemann

Charity prevents blindness in Pakistan

Sightsavers provided Ibad ur-Rehman with a life-changing eye operation to correct a muscle weakness that caused his eyelids to droop

Help for the visually impaired in Bangladesh

Sightsavers, supported by this year’s FT seasonal appeal, works with local partners to enable the blind to gain access to quality education

Lunch with Merryn and John Lee

As part of this year’s seasonal appeal, the FT has joined forces with some of the world’s leading restaurants to give you the chance to bid for lunch with our star writers

FT Seasonal Appeal: Mirror image

As part of our Seasonal Appeal, FT photographer Charlie Bibby took a series of portraits of prominent supporters of our chosen charity, Sightsavers

Let’s do lunch: Dine with an FT writer

This year’s FT Seasonal Appeal includes the mouth-watering opportunity to lunch with our star writers. Martin Dickson explains how it works