We are very pleased to announce that we have linked up with WaterAid and Sightsavers International - details about their vital work below.





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WaterAid

Clean water is essential for life, but over a billion people in the world do not have access to it. This and the lack of sanitation result in over two million people dying from water-related diseases every year. WaterAid works in 17 countries providing water, sanitation and hygiene education to some of the world's poorest people. WaterAid and its partners work with individuals and families in their communities and use low-cost technologies to deliver lasting practical solutions.

It costs just £15 for WaterAid to help one person gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education, so however much you donate you can be sure that it will make a real difference.

Thank you for supporting our vital work.
http://www.wateraid.org

Sightsavers International

There are 37 million people who are blind worldwide and a further 124 million people who have low vision. Around 90% of these people live in the developing world yet 75% of all blindness is either avoidable or treatable. The statistics are staggering but people do not go blind by the million, they go blind one by one and the impact for each person is enormous.

Saving Sight, Changing Lives

For over 50 years, Sightsavers International has been working with local partners to combat blindness in developing countries and support people who are blind. During this time we have helped restore sight to more than five million people and treated over 100 million for potentially blinding conditions. Sightsavers’ support reaches those who need it most – individuals living in some of the poorest countries of the world.

Recycle through OnlyOnePound and raise money for Sightsavers

By supporting Sightsavers you can help make a difference to individuals, families, communities and nations. What’s more, treatment can be provided simply and cheaply. So, every time you buy or sell an item on only onlyonepound.org Sightsavers can help to change peoples lives.

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£1 could protect 8 people from river blindness for a year.
£1 could provide two courses of antibiotics for someone suffering from trachoma.
£4 is the cost of an essential Intra-Ocular lens used in cataract surgery.
£5 could pay for surgery for someone suffering from advanced trachoma.
£8.50 could train someone to be a Mectizan distributor, the drug used to prevent river blindness.
£10 could provide four white canes and help a person who is blind regain some of their independence.
£17 could save the sight of someone with cataract.

Thank you for supporting our vital work.
http://www.sightsavers.org