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Naomi Akwee, Disability Inclusion Facilitator, from Uganda sits facing the camera. She is in a wheelchair. She is talking, half smiling, and using her hands to get her point across. She wears a blue scarf, black rimmed glasses, hoop earrings and a smart denim jacket. The background is blurred, but you can tell it is outside. It is sunny.

Disability Inclusion Facilitators – “the change starts with us”

On World Creativity and Innovation Day, 21 April, we are highlighting trailblazing programmes which strengthen disability rights, including Light for the World’s award winning ‘Disability Inclusion Facilitators’.

Light for the World inclusion expert Ambrose Murangira shares information about COVID-19 in Ugandan sign language.

World Health Day: A call for inclusive COVID-19 vaccines

This World Health Day, we take a closer look at the burning global topic “access to the COVID-19 vaccine”. For Light for the World and the communities we serve, including people with disabilities, the stakes are agonisingly high.

Five women and one man stand side-by-side facing the camera. Each is wearing a COVID-19 protective mask. Each is holding a small coffee sapling, in a plant pot. In the background there are green trees. They are stood on a dirt track / include. These are participants in the HAMRO project coffee in Nepal. The programme aims to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 and its effect on livelihoods of people with disabilities by engaging them in one of the most lucrative and profitable agricultural value chains: coffee

Going hungry: food security for people with disabilities

We ask Disability Inclusion Advisor Murali Padmanabhan how the loss of work – and resulting hunger crisis – has impacted people with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

People in Mozambique walking the flooded streets through angkle deep water.

Lessons in resilience from Mozambique

People with disabilities tell us how they’ve stayed strong in the face of cyclones, devastating floods and COVID-19.

Isabel Antonio sits with her two grandchildren in front of her house on a bamboo mat. The small child sits on her lap and her older grandson who is an albino sits next to her looking happily at his sister.

‘First ever’ glaucoma toolkit for Sub-Saharan Africa

Light for the World is proud to launch with our partners a ‘first of its kind’ toolkit to combat glaucoma, the leading cause of irreparable blindness, across Sub-Saharan Africa.

World Women's Day: Women in leadership - Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world” (c) Light for the World

Women’s Day hopes for the post-pandemic world

The UN has announced the theme of Women’s Day, 8 March, as “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world”.

Our top successes in 2019

12,583,000

Number of treatments given to fight Neglected Tropical Diseases

1,236,000

Number of people reached

68,000

Eye surgeries performed

Persons with disabilities who received rehab wheelchair icon

45,000

Persons with disabilities who received rehabilitation

15,000

Livelihood and empowerment activities

14,000

Children with disabilities who received an education

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Testimonials

Benita Ferrero-Waldner

Former EU Commissioner, President of EU-LAC Foundation

LIGHT FOR THE WORLD shows a remarkable vision of an inclusive world in which we are all able to live a life of health and dignity.

Ronald Boef

Ambassador, top-10 blind golf players in the world

I realise that I am privileged compared to other people with a visual impairment. I had the chance to make my dreams come true. Peers in developing countries deserve the same opportunities.

Henry Wanyoike

Paralympic Gold Medallist and World Record Holder (Kenya)

I love to make this world a better place together with LIGHT FOR THE WORLD. People with disabilities have a great role to play in any community. They should not wait but stand up and go for their dreams and talents.