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Welcome Marion Lieser, Light for the World’s new Chief Executive Officer

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Rupert Roniger, Marion Lieser
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

Our mission & vision

Light for the World empowers people with disabilities and protects eye health – because an inclusive society is better for all!

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Our approach

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

The rate of untreated eye disease is 90% in low-income countries. We believe everyone deserves access to quality eye care, no matter where they live or how much they earn.

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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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A boy with a disability practices walking on two wooden Bars. The child wears a green pullover and pink trousers. Next to it there is another boy supporting.
Light for the World supports children with disabilities to live their full potential.
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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Together, we are changing lives. Check out what we did in 2020:

69,000

eye operations

14,000

children with disabilities attending school

15,000

people with disabilities supported through economic empowerment

An ophthalmologist standing in front of a crowd of people looking and smiling at the camera.

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Greta, wearing glasses, and Rupert smile as they look at something on a tree.
Thanks to her glasses, Greta sees well. She can go to school and follow lessons easily.
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What decades of leading the way towards an inclusive society truly mean

Die vierjährige Nyamush sitzt am Boden im Südsudan umringt von ihren Schulkolleg*innen. Alle Kinder tragen eine gelbe Bluse mit schwarzem Kragen und schwarze Hosen. Ihr Blick ist wach und interessiert nach oben gerichtet.
Four-year-old Nyamush, a little girl we discovered in one of the IDP camps in Juba, South Sudan, smiling with her sister. She has hydrocephalus, and other growth/physical disabilities, but in the year and a half since we found her, she has started going to school (which she loves!) and is learning alongside other children.
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Beyond a one-size-fits-all approach: celebrating difference with inclusive education

Rupert Roniger, Marion Lieser
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Welcome Marion Lieser, Light for the World’s new Chief Executive Officer

Jane Weithera on a conference stepping up for her purpose to push inclusion forward.
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COSP 2022: Why it matters

Ella stellt Stoffe her und verkauft sie anschließend am Markt. Die junge Frau mit den schwarzen Zöpfen und dem weißen Shirt sitzt in ihrem Rollstuhl und lächelt in die Kamera. Neben ihr lehnt ihr Ehemann, der ein gelbes Shirt und eine braune Hose trägt. Vor Ihnen liegen die selbst hergestellten Produkte aufgereiht, die sie am Markt verkaufen.
This story has been published in TAZ
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Burkina Faso: Climate change hits the most vulnerable hardest

Elie Bagbila, a Burkinabe man in his mid-50ies with glasses and an orange patterned shirt gives a presentation
Elie Bagbila speaks about Light for the World’s engagement with Organisations of Persons with Disabilities
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Elie Bagbila: our new Global Head of Rights and Advocacy

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Testimonials

Henry Wanyoike - Light for the World
Henry Wanyoike

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.

Henry Wanyoike Paralympic Gold Medallist and World Record Holder (Kenya)
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Colin Allen

It’s time the mainstream nurtured, sought out and embraced people with disabilities. Our voices must be heard in all spheres of society. That’s my goal, as an Ambassador for LIGHT FOR THE WORLD.

Colin Allen AM Former President, World Federation of the Deaf & Visiting Lecturer at Rochester Institute of Technology