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Photo: An overjoyed Lina is back with her family after surgery. Credit: Ulrich Eigner

Restored eyesight, restored livelihood

An ophthalmic outreach enabled Lina Zaie to grow crops again

Symbolic photo: In 2016, we enabled more than 100,000 eye surgeries. Credit: Ulrich Eigner

New Activity Report 2016 - 2017

Last year's successes in fully accessible PDF format

Portrait of Puja. Credit: Gregor Kuntscher

Puja's Story

Through our CBR programme, Puja from Guwahati was able to finish school

Photo: CTA launch during a CEO & NGO breakfast. Credit: Will Pascall

Call to Invest in Disability-Inclusive Education

NGOs call on governments and donors to prioritise schooling for children with disabilities

Sign language as a teaching medium in Cambodia. Credit: Peter Canton

Disability Inclusion now has its own Lab

Our Netherlands-based Lab is a space for stakeholders to come together to make disability inclusion work.

#CostingEquity: Invest in Inclusive Education!

New report calls for changes to government and donor practice

2016: Six important figures at a glance

10,134,553

people received medication

958,003

patients received eye care services

52,015

cataract surgeries

40,431

children with disabilities reached in rehabilitation programmes

28,601

trachoma surgeries

9,139

children with disabilities received school education

News

Photo: Left to right - Yetnebersh Nigussie, Dagnachew Wakene, Maggie Kern. Credit: Light for the World

Sustainable Development means disability-inclusive development!

2017-21-07

Ministerial Declaration adopted - Maggie Kern blogs from the HLPF, Part 2

Photo: Elie Bagbila gives a presentation during the inclusion training. Credit: Emmanuel Kansié

Training Partners in Inclusive Development

2017-19-07

At a training in Ouagadougou, we discussed issues and tools with our partners and networks - by Emmanuel Kansié

Disability as a cross-cutting issue in partnership talks

2017-18-07

Towards an inclusive partnership between Africa and the EU - by Steffie Neyens

Photo: Left to right - Maggie Kern, Yetnebersh Nigussie (both Light for the World), Jan Kickert (Permanent Representative of Austria to the UN). Credit: Light for the World

Drawing Attention to Inclusion at the HLPF

2017-17-07

Advocacy Officer Maggie Kern blogs from the High-Level Political Forum

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Testimonials

Werner Huber

Donor Communication

LIGHT FOR THE WORLD works as a team at eye level, and gives meaning and great pleasure to many people.

Wouter Verboon

optometrist

What would thousands of people in developing countries be without LIGHT FOR THE WORLD reaching out to them with eye care, education and rehabilitation? I have seen myself how these people are discriminated and marginalised.

Joy Morozov

International Alliances

Working with experts who are fighting to improve the lives of millions of children and women in the most underprivileged world is what gets me up every morning.