IN PARTNERSHIP
Because every child deserves the chance to have their eyes looked after
The child learning to wear their first eye patch.
The little one putting on sunglasses before heading outside.
The parent asking questions because they want to understand what their child needs.
And children whose experience of eye care can look very different simply because of where they live.
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Sightsavers is an international organisation working across more than 30 countries in Africa and Asia to protect sight, fight disease and promote equality.
Current project
Our current support is going towards Macho Yangu, a school eye health programme across the Morogoro, Singida and Dodoma regions of Tanzania.
Before Tanzania, Speckles supported projects in Nigeria and Liberia.
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Current project
When children's vision is part of your everyday work, you quickly realise how much access matters.
For many Speckles families, noticing something about their child's eyes means there is somewhere to turn.
That process may still come with worry, waiting and plenty of questions, but there is a pathway forward.
Not every family has the same access.
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An appointment can be booked.
Questions can be asked.
A trained professional can take a closer look.
A plan can be made.
In Tanzania, Sightsavers says eye health services can be difficult to access in rural areas because of shortages of qualified staff and specialist hospitals. Their work there includes eye screening, training eye care workers, community outreach and strengthening the wider eye health system.
And for us, looking after the eyes of our future has never meant only the children who already know the Speckles name.
It means children, full stop.
It means children, full stop.
We wanted to support an organisation already doing this work alongside the people who understand their own communities best.
Sightsavers works with governments, local health teams, schools, community organisations and people with disabilities to help create stronger, more sustainable systems of care.
That means their work goes far beyond one eye test or one appointment.
They help train health workers.
They support eye screening, surgery and treatment.
They campaign for disability rights and inclusion.
They work alongside countries tackling diseases that can cause avoidable blindness.
Because meaningful eye care is not about arriving, helping for a moment and leaving.
It is about strengthening the people, knowledge and systems that can keep looking after eyes long after that moment has passed.
Macho Yangu means My Eyes in Swahili.
The programme works across the Morogoro, Singida and Dodoma regions of Tanzania, with a focus on school eye health. Speckles is one of several organisations contributing towards the programme.
Schools are an important place to reach children because they are already there, learning, playing and getting on with being kids.
The programme helps connect children with eye health services through schools and local health systems, while supporting the people around them to recognise when a child may need further care.
The work is much bigger than us. We are proud to play our part in it.
One of the things we admire most about Sightsavers is the scale of the problems they aim to address.
Trachoma is the world's leading infectious cause of blindness. Sightsavers has spent years working with ministries of health, local health workers and affected communities to help tackle it.
It takes surgeons.
Health workers.
Community teams.
Treatment.
Clean water and sanitation.
Monitoring.
Local knowledge.
And years of people working towards the same goal.
Sightsavers has already supported eight countries to eliminate the disease. Yet there are still at least 29 countries that count trachoma as a public health problem.
That work takes time.
Not a quick moment of help.
Something designed to keep changing what eye care looks like for the next child, and the child after them.
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Another reason we chose Sightsavers is that their work does not stop at sight.
Their mission includes preventing avoidable blindness, fighting disease and supporting people with disabilities so they can learn, earn and participate more equally in society.
Because helping someone see is important.
Helping make sure they can take part in school, work, community and everyday life matters too.
In the Speckles world, the Kind Friend is the one who notices when somebody else might need a little support.
Not because they want the attention.
Because caring about someone means noticing them.
We spend a lot of time telling children that kindness matters.
We want the way we build Speckles to show them the same thing.
Our current support goes towards Macho Yangu, a school eye health programme operating across Morogoro, Singida, and Dodoma.
Before Tanzania, Speckles contributed towards a children's eye health project in Nigeria.
Our earlier support included a school health programme in Liberia.
As our partnership continues, we will share verified updates about the projects Speckles supports when that information is available for us to publish.
There are children wearing Speckles patches at kitchen tables.
Children pulling on Speckles sunglasses before running outside.
And children sitting in classrooms on the other side of the world having their eyes looked at by somebody who knows what to look for.
Different children. Different lives.
The same belief underneath all of it.
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At Speckles, we think about the child in front of us.
Through Sightsavers, we also get to stand behind work designed to make eye care stronger for the children who come next.
That is what Looking after the eyes of our future means to us.
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