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Sightsavers

Trachoma elimination moves closer, one year in

In the year since Caroline Harper gave a TED Talk about plans to eliminate trachoma, Sightsavers' has continued to fight preventable diseases, providing more than 113 million treatments in 2018 alone.

The ocean’s twilight zone may be the key to protecting life on earth

You may think of the twilight zone as a TV sci-fi series, but it also refers to that deep, dark, mid layer of the ocean that has been largely ignored —until now.

Register for the first course of the Community Health Academy

Today, the Community Health Academy opens registration for its first leadership course, offered in partnership with HarvardX and edX.

Sightsavers

Charity has end of blinding disease in its sights

The international charity, Sightsavers, has just launched an ambitious appeal to raise money to fund the final push to eliminate the blinding eye disease, trachoma.

Satellites become valuable new tool for governments, industry to cut emissions

For years, people used satellites to observe the Earth’s climate. Now, orbital sensing offers a crucial new way to protect it. Two new pieces of research led by EDF scientists offer a preview of things to come.

Meet GirlTrek, honorees at the 2019 Red Dress Awards

"Black women are dying at higher and faster rates than any other group in the country," explains Garrison. "The root causes are specific to our communities — things like lack of access to green spaces and healthy foods."

Could a superplant save the planet?

As carbon emissions continue to rise, scientists hope a new crop will help fight climate change.

What we learned from walking in the footsteps of Harriet Tubman

In March 2018, activists T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison hiked the path that Harriet Tubman took to freedom nearly 170 years ago. Their journey was both painful and beautiful, demanding and transcendent. Here are lessons from their walk.

Environmental nonprofit moves forward on launching its own satellite

The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has granted two companies $1.5 million in contractsto design a satellite that will track methane emissions around the globe.

The Bail Project

With California's cash bail system in limbo, Compton pilot program serves as a 'petri dish'

Since September, judges in Compton have received several bail-reduction requests as part of a new collaboration among UCLA law students, the Los Angeles County public defender’s office and The Bail Project.

The women of GirlTrek lead a literal movement for Black women

Vanessa Garrison and Morgan Dixon, the founders of GirlTrek, embody the principles of collective work and responsibility. Their eight-year-old outfit organizes black women to take ownership of their health.

Sightsavers

$105 million fund to eliminate trachoma launched

Sightsavers has raised $105 million to help eliminate trachoma. This funding infusion was announced in December 2018 at the Global Citizen concert by Richard Branson, amid performances by Beyoncé, Jay Z and Ed Sheeran.