Women and children in Mozambique holding on to their goods — Mozambique has been hit by four cyclones in two years, destroying the livelihoods of many people. © Mango Sound

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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

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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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Economic Empowerment
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Inclusive Education

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.

Inclusive Education

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

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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Disability Rights
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Elie Bagbila: our new Global Head of Rights and Advocacy

Die Teams beim Rollstuhlbasketball im Kampf um den Ball, während dieser durch die Luft geworfen wird.

Humanitarian Action
Disability Rights

Inclusion through sport

four Cambodian project participants riding a transport tricycle on a dirt road. The driver is male and waves and smiles. 2 men and one woman sit behind him on the cart. — Participants of a workshop on designing accessible agriculture solutions are testing their prototype ofa transport tricycle.

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New horizons for Light for the World Cambodia

An older Ethiopian woman wearing white traditional clothing and headscarf sits next to three men in the waiting room of a mobile eye health outreach. She responds to questions from a health professional in a white coat. — Mullu sits in the waiting area of a mobile eye health outreach in Amba and talks to a medical professional.

Augengesundheit

Tackling the discrimination behind women’s sight loss

Nyamit lives in the IDP camp Mahad. Her picture and story was used in several publications.

Disability Rights

Women activists with disabilities say: “#BreakTheBias!”

Tom Shakespeare (new International Chair of Light for the World) at a kick-off event to the Zero Conference 2022 at the Austrian Parliament on the 22nd of February 2022.

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Why inclusion is the challenge of the twenty-first century