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We are excited about taking our first volunteers from the UK with us on a 10day rewarding and fun packed week of eye camps, in the most rural of places. Returning to Chitral as our base, we plan to re-visit some locations from last year due to the urgent need of eye...

Winter months means not many people leave their homes, we have no planned eye camps in January and February due to the weather. March 2024, we have the blessed month of Ramadhan where we will be running our ongoing annual food pack distribution and financial aid...

The weather in the summers is extremely hot and hence no eye camps were performed in June and July.729 People benefited from free eye screening from monthly camps (August till December) being held in different villages. Two local optometrists from Pakistan who are now...

Chitral is impacted by high levels of poverty with most of the population living in remote villages away from larger town and limited access to primary healthcare. The Sight Relief team visited Chitral, Garam Chashma, Kalash Valley, Drosh and Upper Dir. We examined...

In the immediate aftermath of the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria where nearly 60,00 people lost their lives and more than 4 million people were made homeless, we launched an emergency appeal for immediate shelter and supplies. We received £1,230 in...

Our local team continues to go from strength to strength and are now regularly undertaking outreach eye camps in remote locations around the Hazara District in KPK. Successful eye camps with our local employees are becoming more frequent and the process becoming more...

Our trustee Saddaqat Khan successfully climbed K2 base camp for Muslim charity to help build schools in rural villages and to raise awareness for Sight Relief.  The weather was poor and local flights were cancelled so he started his journey from Islamabad to Skardu in...

During a successful 4 week visit by the Sight Relief team in August 22, we were able to achieve several key milestones for the charity.   We successfully undertook 8 eye camps across remote and difficult to reach locations in the northern mountains, significantly...

We are excited to announce our first trip post COVID. Our aim is to open our first vision centre offering free eye care in the outskirts of a rural village called Haripur in northern Pakistan, near the largest refugee camps. Watch our project live on our Instagram...

Our first ever fundraising event at Cowans Law shooting club included clay pigeon shooting, archery, axe throwing, henna tattooing, an auction and afternoon tea.We raised £1258.50 for our project trip to Pakistan in August 2022. A huge thank you to all those who...