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Four players from the South Sudan blind football league. Two players are holding aloft the arm of another player. The three are smiling as they come off the pitch and wearing football shirts with Blind Football on the front.

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Four players from the South Sudan blind football league. Two players are holding aloft the arm of another player. The three are smiling as they come off the pitch and wearing football shirts with Blind Football on the front.
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Inclusive sports partnership with adidas Foundation

Several people, including Light for the World staff stand in front of a Light for the World banner smiling to celebrate the launch of We Can Work, one of the good news stories of 2023.
Light for the World and the Mastercard Foundation have partnered to enable young people with disabilities to access dignified and fulfilling work by 2030 through the “We Can Work” programme. We will work closely with the African Disability Forum, and national OPDs in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal.
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Our 2025 Global Disability Summit commitments

Two women are outside smiling and high fiving with all hands. Doreck stands up wearing a white tshirt and Naome sits in a wheelchair with a grey shirt and leggings. You can tell they are good friends and having fun together,
Group images as part of the DIF video series. Naome and Doreck high five.
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Disability Inclusion Facilitators: young changemakers putting inclusion into action

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A letter to my younger self on International Women’s Day

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February 2025 News Wrap

Two people stand in a field looking into the distance at green. There is a line of plastic bottles closer to the camera than the people. One woman is wearing an orange and red outfit, and David Ndungu is on the left in a white top and black trousers, using crutches.
David Ndungu and a colleague take a break while developing the elephant deterrents.
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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 sparks lasting change on disability rights and eye health.

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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
Promoting disability rights

There are many barriers to inclusion. With our partners, we tackle equal access to health, education, work and protection in emergencies.

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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

Tens of millions of children with disabilities are being left behind. Yet every child has the right to inclusive, quality education.

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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

90% of vision impairment and blindness is preventable or treatable. Everyone deserves access to quality eye care, wherever they live.

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Together, we are changing lives:

1,190,000

people reached with crucial support in eye health and disability inclusion in 2023

37,000+

people with disabilities took part in our economic empowerment activities in 2023

750,000+

eye consultations with partners took place in 2023