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Person sitting on a wooden bench against a light blue and white wall, wearing a brown jacket over a beige shirt, with a white gauze bandage over one eye and smiling at the camera.
  • News Wrap
  • Disability Rights
  • Eye Health

November News Wrap: Ethiopia eye health campaign delivers over 500 surgeries 

A woman stands in a field tending to lavendar. She is wearing a stylish green jacket, blue jeans and a white shirt. She has short red hair and wears sunglasses and earrings. She is smiling and clearly enjoying her work and standing in the sunshine. There are two greenhouses in the background.
Lydia Wanja, Horticulture Farmer, took part in Inclusive Futures InBusiness project in Kenya. She runs a successful farm. © Dennis Hombe / Light for the World
  • Disability Rights

Four climate myths that need busting for disability inclusive climate action

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.
  • General
  • Disability Rights

Bright Stars shine: South Sudan’s blind footballers to make historic international debut 

Fatuma Mahamoud sits outdoors, smiling broadly. The background includes greenery and woven wooden panels. She is a mother of five who expanded her business after joining a Village Savings and Loan Association through the We Are Able! programme.
Fatuma Mahamoud completed a three-month training programme on Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA) under We Are Able. © Nema Juma / Light for the World
  • Economic Empowerment
  • Disability Rights
  • Humanitarian Action

No one left behind: how inclusion boosts food security in South Sudan

A classroom scene with students sitting at desks; a student in the foreground wearing a white and yellow shirt with green accents is writing in a notebook.
  • News Wrap
  • Disability Rights
  • Eye Health
  • General

August News Wrap: powerful partnership brings eye care to thousands in Burkina Faso 

Kedir Mohamed, a young Ethiopian boy sits smiling in a classroom while wearing a blue eye-testing frame used for vision screening. He wears a bright blue shirt over a pale green T-shirt. Behind him, the wall is painted yellow and blue, with hand-painted text in English that reads questions like “What is your name?” and “How old are you?” The boy appears happy and engaged during a school-based eye health screening.
Kedir Mohamed during a school eye health screening.
  • News Wrap
  • Disability Rights
  • Eye Health
  • General

July News Wrap: Students see bright future after specs campaign 

A man smiles. He is sitting outside a corrugated iron shelter. He wears black sunglasses and a purple striped shirt. He has a beard. It looks hot outside and you can see sun shining in the background.
David Liep
  • General
  • Disability Rights
  • Humanitarian Action
  • News Wrap

Spotlight on refugees with disabilities

A nurse in green scrubs checks the eyes of a student in a classroom in Burkina Faso.
  • News Wrap
  • Disability Rights
  • Eye Health

Eye health progress in Burkina Faso

We Can Work and OPD representative youth speak at GDS in a fireside chat about inclusive employment. There is a GDS logo in the background and two young people with albinism are on stage delivering a presentation.
We Can Work and OPD representative youth speak at GDS in a fireside chat about inclusive employment.
  • News Wrap
  • Disability Rights
  • Eye Health

Youth lead the way at Global Disability Summit

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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  • Disability Rights
  • Economic Empowerment
  • Eye Health
  • Humanitarian Action
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