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Sightsavers and the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance be a part of forces to help incapacity inclusion within the hospitality sector



Sustainable Hospitality Alliance is partnering with worldwide growth organisation Sightsavers to extend incapacity inclusion within the hospitality business, with a give attention to nations in Africa and Asia. The partnership will see each organisations act in shut collaboration, enabling data sharing to make the world’s hospitality business accessible to all.

Having already partnered collectively on the Inclusion Works programme, to extend employment alternatives for younger folks with disabilities in Kenya and Nigeria, this long-term partnership will see each organisations coordinate motion to help the size up of affect and programme.

With an influential community of member resorts, the Alliance has a large attain within the hospitality sector, representing over 50,000 properties and seven million rooms globally. This partnership combines the Alliance’s experience and world community with Sightsavers’ expertise combating for incapacity rights for greater than 70 years. 

I’m delighted to welcome Sightsavers as a accomplice to the Alliance. This is a chance for each organisations to share greatest observe, align on analysis and produce tangible options to creating the hospitality business extra inclusive for folks with disabilities. Sustainable Hospitality Alliance CEO, Glenn Mandziuk

Incapacity inclusion is on the core of Sightsavers’ work, so we’re proud to accomplice with the Alliance to make the hospitality business extra accessible for all. This can be a nice alternative for us to collaborate and share data of what actually works to enhance folks’s lives. Sightsavers CEO, Dr Caroline Harper

About Sightsavers

Sightsavers is a world organisation that works in additional than 30 low- and middle-income nations to finish avoidable blindness, deal with and eradicate uncared for tropical illnesses, and promote equality of alternative for folks with disabilities. Sightsavers imaginative and prescient is of a world the place nobody is blind from avoidable causes and the place folks with disabilities can take part equally in society.

Sightsavers holds Unbiased Analysis Organisation (IRO) standing, making them one of many solely worldwide non-governmental organisations to carry this standing within the UK. Sightsavers conducts top quality analysis to deal with world gaps in data and put analysis findings into observe by feeding them again into the design of programmes.

Within the seven many years since its basis, Sightsavers has:

  • Supported greater than 1.5 BILLION therapies for uncared for tropical illnesses
  • Carried out greater than 8.3 million cataract operations to revive sight
  • Carried out greater than 207 million eye examinations
  • Offered over 289,000 abilities and advocacy coaching alternatives for folks with disabilities
  • Supported greater than 177,000 college years of schooling for kids with disabilities and visible impairment

For extra info, please go to www.sightsavers.org.

Concerning the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance

The Sustainable Hospitality Alliance brings collectively the hospitality business and strategic companions to deal with key challenges affecting the planet and its folks, native locations and communities. They develop sensible free sources and programmes to create a affluent and accountable hospitality sector that offers again greater than it takes. Their members symbolize over 50,000 resorts – totalling 7 million rooms – and embrace world-leading corporations together with Selection Motels Worldwide, Marriott Worldwide, Hilton Motels & Resorts, IHG Motels & Resorts, Hyatt Motels Company, BWH Resort Group and Radisson Resort Group, in addition to regional manufacturers. Their community additionally consists of different components of the hospitality worth chain, together with house owners, buyers and suppliers, to additional drive joined up motion on sustainability, and speed up the business on the trail to internet optimistic hospitality. For extra info, please go to: www.sustainablehospitalityalliance.org.

Emily McLeish
Senior Model and Marcomms Supervisor
Sustainable Hospitality Alliance

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