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Photo: Kadidiatou attends school together with her non-disabled peers. Credit: Emmanuel Kansié / Light for the World

Inclusive Education: A quick guide

Why Inclusive Education? Q & A, tutorial videos, and resources.

Photo: Selamawit and her mother, Zinabua, from Awassa. Credit: Light for the World

Community-Based Rehabilitation: A quick guide

Why Community-Based Rehabilitation? And how does it work?

Photo: video still of Litsy Ramos and her mother

Litsy's dream

Litsy, a student with Light for the World's partner FASSIV, wants to become a famous painter

Photo collage: empowered women with disabilities. Credit: Light for the World

Her Abilities Award

Light for the World announces first global award honouring achievements of women with disabilties

Photo: Inclusive Livelihood project in Rwanda. Credit: Marjan van der Lingen / Light for the World

Disability Inclusive Livelihood

Changing lives at community level

Photo: CTA launch during a CEO & NGO breakfast. Credit: Will Pascall

Call to Invest in Disability-Inclusive Education

NGOs call on governments and donors to prioritise schooling for children with disabilities

2016: Six important figures at a glance

12,999,134

people received medication

1,319,784

number of persons reached

93,082

eye surgeries

33,904

children with disabilities reached in rehabilitation programmes

20,640

livelihood activities

9,062

children with disabilities receiving school education

News

Photo: Light for the World's François Carbonez, Nidhi Goyal, Marianne Fobel, Jenni Jerabek, Sreynak Hun, and Judith Baart at EDD18. Credit: Light for the World

European Development Days: Women with Disabilities on the Rise

2018-12-06

- by Marianne Fobel, François Carbonez, and Judith Baart

Event: Leverage investment through partnerships

2018-08-06

Inclusive Education for girls and boys with disabilities in Low and Middle-Income Countries

Photo: Cesaltina Artur, Provincial Directorate of Gender, Child and Social Action, Sofala, Mozambique. Credit: Light for the World

Doubly discriminated against

2018-05-06

Women with disabilities more likely to suffer discrimination - by Iláuda Manala

Photo: Cambodian woman in a wheelchair following a discussion

Women on the rise - no-one left behind

2018-29-05

European Development Days Session on 6 June, 2018

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Testimonials

Werner Huber

Donor Communication

LIGHT FOR THE WORLD works as a team at eye level, and gives meaning and great pleasure to many people.

Fortunat Walther

CEO Medicor Foundation

Throughout our longstanding cooperation, LIGHT FOR THE WORLD has proven to be an efficient and transparent organization that emphasizes supporting locally pre-existing structures and thus sustainability in development.

Joy Morozov

International Alliances

Working with experts who are fighting to improve the lives of millions of children and women in the most underprivileged world is what gets me up every morning.