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International Day of People with Disabilities: expert insights from OPDs

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Celebrating OPDs on International Day of People with Disabilities. Peter smiles. He is wearing a pale pink shirt and is holding packets of food, which are brown and yellow. We can see some tools around him.
Peter owns a store in a camp for IDPs in South Sudan. He works as a DIF. “I am committed to do more for myself and other people with disabilities. I have been involved in an Organisation of Persons with Disabilities (OPD) for the past seven years and I am really committed to this,” says Peter.

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Celebrating OPDs on International Day of People with Disabilities. Peter smiles. He is wearing a pale pink shirt and is holding packets of food, which are brown and yellow. We can see some tools around him.
Peter owns a store in a camp for IDPs in South Sudan. He works as a DIF. “I am committed to do more for myself and other people with disabilities. I have been involved in an Organisation of Persons with Disabilities (OPD) for the past seven years and I am really committed to this,” says Peter.
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International Day of People with Disabilities: expert insights from OPDs

Dr. Vasco da Gama examines the eye of a young boy in Quelimane, Mozambique. Dr Vasco da Gama is a pioneer in the drive to improve child eye health in Mozambique.
These pictures show Dr. Vasco da Gama with his patients at the Central Hospital Quelimane. These fotos show child friendly pictures at the walls of the eye department at the Central Hospital Quelimane. Dr. Vasco da Gama (Head of the eye department) is responsible for them. They create a nice atmosphere for the children and raise awareness among the parents about common eye health issues and how to face them. On this picture he looks at the eye of his patient Ministro António (cataract). Dr Vasco da Gama is a pioneer in the drive to improve child eye health in Mozambique.
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Image of a certified Disability Inclusion Facilitators receiving his certificate at the launch of from Ethiopia’s first Disability Inclusion Academy. Pictured are Ergogie Tesfaye, Minister of Women and Social Affairs for the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Abayneh Gujo, Director of the Federation of Ethiopian Associations of Persons with Disabilities, Aynalem Tefera, Light for the World Ethiopia Country Director, and Dr. Simone Knapp, Austrian Ambassador to Ethiopia.
Certified Disability Inclusion Facilitators receive certificates from Ergogie Tesfaye, Minister of Women and Social Affairs for the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, and Abayneh Gujo, Director of the Federation of Ethiopian Associations of Persons with Disabilities. Also pictured are Aynalem Tefera, Light for the World Ethiopia Country Director, and Dr. Simone Knapp, Austrian Ambassador to Ethiopia. © Light for the World.
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Image of Nigest Unche, standing and smiling in front of a blackboard in a school classroom. Nigest attends Sikela Primary School in Arba Minch, Ethiopia. She received glasses through 1, 2, 3 I can see! a school child eye health programme of Light for the World. ©Genaye Eshetu
Nigest Unche attends Sikela Primary School in Arba Minch, Ethiopia. She received glasses through 1, 2, 3 I can see! a school child eye health programme of Light for the World. ©Genaye Eshetu
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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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Sign Language is used for communication in the Endiro Café © Erika Bojarczuk
Supporting people with disabilities

Barriers to inclusion are still high and many. From the classroom to the workplace and beyond, Discrimination against people with disabilities must end now.

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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

Education lays the groundwork for a self-determined future. But more than 32.5 million children with disabilities in poorer regions are denied this right. We fight to change this.

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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
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The rate of untreated eye disease is 90% in low-income countries. Everyone deserves access to quality eye care, regardless of where they live or how much they earn.

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Together, we are changing lives. Check out what we did in 2022:

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people with disabilities supported through economic empowerment

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