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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

10,134,553

people received medication

958,003

patients received eye care services

52,015

cataract surgeries

40,431

children with disabilities reached in rehabilitation programmes

28,601

trachoma surgeries

9,139

children with disabilities received school education

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Photo: The Wilson family lost their son Charles Abui to Nodding Syndrome. Credit: Julia Gunther

Enigmatic illness adds to the burden of the South Sudanese civil war

2018-17-04

Nodding Syndrome stunts growth, impairs cognition, causes epileptic seizures

Photo: Young ophthalmologist screening patients at an outreach in Ethiopia, 2016. Credit: Ulrich Eigner / Light for the World

How to make healthcare truly inclusive

2018-06-04

When does “healthcare for all” mean just that?

Photo: The Hyderabad conference on evidence in disability and health brought together researchers and activists.

Evidence in Global Disability and Health

2018-25-03

Hyderabad conference brought together researchers, doctors, fieldworkers, and activists

Photo: The Light for the World team in Burkina Faso, led by Elie Bagbila, after being awarded an honorary distinction by the Ministry of Women, Solidarity and Families. Credit: Light for the World

Light for the World awarded Honorary Distinction for our work in Burkina Faso

2018-09-03

Ministry recognises many years of cooperation for the rights and well-being of persons with disabilites

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Testimonials

Haile Gebrselassie

Olympic Gold Medallist and quadruple World Champion

As Goodwill Ambassador of LIGHT FOR THE WORLD, it seems crucial to me that persons with disabilities should move from the margins of society to its center and enjoy equal rights in all areas of life.

Thérèse Kafando

Director of CEFISE

I am very proud of and satisfied with the collaboration with LIGHT FOR THE WORLD. Thanks to their support, we are able to reach large numbers of excluded children with disabilities.

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.