LIGHT FOR THE WORLD

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Where we work

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Symbolic photo: In 2016, we enabled more than 100,000 eye surgeries. Credit: Ulrich Eigner

New Activity Report 2016 - 2017

Last year's successes in fully accessible PDF format

Portrait of Puja. Credit: Gregor Kuntscher

Puja's Story

Through our CBR programme, Puja from Guwahati was able to finish school

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 prioritize schooling for children with disabilities

Sign language as a teaching medium in Cambodia. Credit: Peter Canton

Disability Inclusion now has its own Lab

Our Netherlands-based Lab is a space for stakeholders to come together to make disability inclusion work.

#CostingEquity: Invest in Inclusive Education!

New report calls for changes to government and donor practice

Children in North East India are playing together

Sustainable education for all

New strategy to ensure the quality of education in North East India

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

News

Photo: Martha Peter Abach from Jonglei State, currently at Mahad IDP camp, received eye surgery organised by Light for the World. Credit: Jaco Klamer

From Crisis to Opportunity?

2017-19-06

Gender-sensitive disability mainstreaming in humanitarian crisis - by Marianne Fobel & Maggie Kern

Photo: non-accessible staircase adorned with the OECD 2017 forum motto, #BridgingDivides.

OECD Forum 2017 - All Inclusive?

2017-07-06

Where are the people with disabilities?

Kanthari - Change from Within

2017-24-05

Film screening at the European Parliament - by Steffie Neyens

Photo: c. 60 participants from government, NGOs, and DPOs took part in our CBR workshop

Community-Based Rehabilitation Set to Expand in Mozambique

2017-03-05

Maputo workshop proves huge interest in nationwide CBR roll-out

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Testimonials

Francois Carbonez

Policy Officer

At LIGHT FOR THE WORLD, we have a lot of expertise. But collaborating with others like the IDDC gives us a dimension we could never reach on our own.

Grace Lime

Donor

I see a donation to LIGHT FOR THE WORLD as an investment with a high revenue. When you save someone’s eyesight, you save a life. Buy one jeans less in a year and save someone’s eyesight.

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.