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Inclusive education in South Sudan: teachers trained in sign language and braille 

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Hanadi, a trainee teacher, practises signs during a training session at Rombur National Teachers Training Institute.

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Hanadi, a trainee teacher, practises signs during a training session at Rombur National Teachers Training Institute.
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Inclusive education in South Sudan: teachers trained in sign language and braille 

A woman wearing earings and a party dress is holding an a golden award tropy. © Dorreck Ankunda / Light for the World
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October 2024 News Wrap 

Andera Delfyna, Learning and Innovation Expert at Light for the World, facilitating a co-creation session. She is smiling and handing a piece of paper to a programme participant.
Andera Delfyna, Learning and Innovation Expert at Light for the World, facilitates a co-creation session.
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5 tips for programme co-creation: a guide for NGOs 

Amer Ajith, a Disability Inclusion Facilitator in Jonglei State sitting on a motorised tricycle in flood water in a village in Jonglei State.
Amer Ajith, a Disability Inclusion Facilitator in Jonglei State.
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Call to protect people with disabilities as ‘unprecedented’ floods hit South Sudan 

Image of Nigest Unche, standing and smiling in front of a blackboard in a school classroom. Nigest attends Sikela Primary School in Arba Minch, Ethiopia. She received glasses through 1, 2, 3 I can see! a school child eye health programme of Light for the World. ©Genaye Eshetu
Nigest Unche attends Sikela Primary School in Arba Minch, Ethiopia. She received glasses through 1, 2, 3 I can see! a school child eye health programme of Light for the World. © Genaye Eshetu / Light for the World.
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Six ways to improve child eye health in sub-Saharan Africa on World Sight Day

It is a big head that says mental health matters, with speech bubbles all around the head. Every person that came to an event I held last year did a painting of those bubbles. We had different colours, which depicts our differences, we all have different things that resonate with. It also symbolizes that we are all at different stages, we are all willing to grow and our collective belief gave us that full picture. We all used different colors, but that is what made it beautiful.
A drawing from many collaborators depicting their mental health
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10 lessons on disability inclusive mental health from an expert

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Husband, wife and child smiling and being happy over the fact that Tesfanesh (the wife) got an eye surgery and can see again. Tesfanesh is looking at the camera, smiling with an eye patch on her left eye. She is holding is standing in front of her husband, holding her child.
Tesfanesh Tadese Äthiopien 2019 © Ulrich Eigner

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Light for the World believes an inclusive society is better for all!

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Our approach

A young man with a protective mask and apron stands in front of a red coffee machine and prepares fresh coffee.
Sign Language is used for communication in the Endiro Café © Erika Bojarczuk
Supporting people with disabilities

Barriers to inclusion are still high and many. From the classroom to the workplace and beyond, Discrimination against people with disabilities must end now.

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In der ersten Reihe auf einer Holzschulbank sitzen sieben Jugendliche mit Brillen. Sie alle tragen ein blaues Hemd und blicken in die Kamera.
Brillenverteilung in Schulen© Gregor Kuntscher
Championing inclusive education

Education lays the groundwork for a self-determined future. But more than 32.5 million children with disabilities in poorer regions are denied this right. We fight to change this.

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An elderly woman who has just had an operation sits smiling in front of a red wall and looks directly into the camera. She is wearing beige linen clothes with dark green ornaments.
Ethiopia 2015 © Light for the World
Promoting eye health

The rate of untreated eye disease is 90% in low-income countries. Everyone deserves access to quality eye care, regardless of where they live or how much they earn.

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Together, we are changing lives. Check out what we did in 2023:

125,600

people with disabilities reached through our disability inclusion programmes

28,699

students with disabilities received access to education

51,229

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