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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”.

A young boy with an eye patch over his left eye is smiling into the camera. He wears a read sweater.

New global eye health stats should “shock and motivate”

Today the International Agency for Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) launches the ‘Vision Atlas’. It gives the newest data on the enormous numbers of people impacted by sight loss around the 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

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.

Prince Maximilian von und zu Liechtenstein

Group CEO LGT Group Foundation

I support LIGHT FOR THE WORLD because their dedicated work makes a tangible change in the lives of people hidden or forgotten by society.

Marlene Binggeli

Donor

I have experienced LIGHT FOR THE WORLD as authentic, unpretentious, and lively. Their work for children with disabilities is extremely important. That is why I have made a bequest to them.