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South Sudan players in white and blue kits celebrate as captain Martin Ladu Paul is presented with the championship trophy. Medals hang around their necks, players hold their hands aloft in celebration and everyone is smiling.
Champions — South Sudan lift the Blind Football African Championship Division 2 title. © Light for the World / Oxygen Media Studios
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14 good news stories in 2025 

Three people are indoors against a plain wall with a wooden door on the left. Andreas Onea and Marion Lieser are standing side by side, while Tom Shakespeare is seated in a wheelchair in front of them. The floor is light-colored wood, and the setting appears to be a spacious room with neutral tones.
Andreas Onea, the new Chair of Light for the World's International Board of Trustees (left), Marion Lieser, CEO at Light for the World International, and Tom Shakespeare, the previous Board Chair. © Governance & Compliance/Light for the World
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New leadership on Light for the World’s International Board 

South Sudan players in white and blue kits lift the championship trophy high on the podium. Medals hang around their necks as confetti sprays in the air.
Champions — South Sudan lift the Blind Football African Championship Division 2 title. © Light for the World / Oxygen Media Studios
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South Sudan secure historic blind football championship

A woman stands in an audience. She holds a microphone and is addressing someone at the front, out of the frame. Many people sit around her listening. She is wearing traditional dress, including a colorful necklace, headband and belt. The conference room has a large wooden paneled wall in the background, and light green table cloths. Everyone looks serious but interested.
IF closure Kenya Oct 2025 (1) © Dennis Hombe / Light for the World
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October News Wrap: entrepreneurs with disabilities lead change in Kenya 

Four players from the South Sudan blind football league. Two players are holding aloft the arm of another player. The three are smiling as they come off the pitch and wearing football shirts with Blind Football on the front.
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Bright Stars shine: South Sudan’s blind footballers to make historic international debut 

People take part in a Cyclone simulation exercise in Buzi district. Helena Rego, a DIF who uses a wheelchair, is supported by two people in red high-visibility jackets and hats. Three other men are also in high-vis clothing. One has a megaphone.
Disability Inclusion Facilitators support Cyclone Simulation exercises in Buzi, Mozambique, as part of the ICDP project, funded by Austrian Development Agency. © Mango Sound/Light for the World.
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No longer invisible: a new tool for disability data in crises

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Celebrating pioneers of child eye health in Africa 

Close-up of the face of Nigest, a young Ethiopian girl as she undergos a vision test. She is wearing a trial frame fitted with test lenses, including a prominent red lens on the left side. A hand adjusts the frame gently. Nigest's expression is calm and focused.
Nigest Unche received glasses after an eye testing at her school. © Genaye Eshetu / Light for the World.
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Dr Dagmawi Abebe: one child eye doctor for 30 million  

Dr Claudette Yaméogo, in a white doctor's coat and wearing a face mask, tests the eyes of a teenage patient. THey sit either side of the machine and are both looking in the lenses.
Dr Claudette Yaméogo tests the eyes of a teenage patient. © Roméo Moov / Light for the World
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Dr Claudette Yaméogo: championing children’s eye health in Burkina Faso 

Dr Rebecca Lusobya is a paediatric ophthalmologist at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda. She wears a white doctor's coat and is lookng at the camera.
Dr Rebecca Lusobya is a paediatric ophthalmologist at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda.
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Dr Rebecca Lusobya: a pledge to protect children’s eyesight in Uganda