LIGHT FOR THE WORLD

Her Abilities Award for Women with Disabilities

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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

2017: 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

Foto: Sreynak Hun. Credit: Licht für die Welt

Meet Sreynak Hun

2018-18-07

Our Cambodian colleague tells her story

Photo: Cristina, who has albinism, is a fieldworker with Orebacom in Mozambique. Credit: Light for the World

Cristina, a fieldworker with albinism

2018-12-07

The pain of being a person with albinism in Mozambique - by Iláuda Manala

Key Visual: Her Abilities Award. Credit: Licht für die Welt / PKP BBDO

Her Abilities Award: A Spotlight on 99 Abilities

2018-29-06

Nominations for Light for the World's new award start today

Light for the World becomes full CONCORD member

2018-26-06

Bringing a disability perspective into EU development policies

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Testimonials

Magdalena Scharl

Peer-adviser, BIZEPS

What I particularly like about LIGHT FOR THE WORLD is their appreciation of diversity and above all their real effort to be inclusive at all stages from planning to implementation of programmes.

David Flores Guiterrez

Physiotherapist, CENAID

I like working with LIGHT FOR THE WORLD because they are an example of social and inclusive responsibility.

Wouter Verboon

optometrist

What would thousands of people in developing countries be without LIGHT FOR THE WORLD reaching out to them with eye care, education and rehabilitation? I have seen myself how these people are discriminated and marginalised.