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Category: Disability Rights

A woman with a disability that impairs her ability to walk, rides a bicycle while balancing her cane over the bike handles.
Bintou Ouedraogo, who has a physical disability, balances her cane over her bike handles while she cycles.
  • Disability Rights

A journey at the intersection of gender and disability

Young people with disabilities at an EnableMe art workshop in Kenya.
Light for the World Kenya's EnableMe online platform connects people with disabilities across the country, like these young people who met offline for an art workshop. (c) Light for the World
  • Disability Rights
  • Latest

Towards a world of zero barriers for people with disabilities

Two children in India walk to school
  • Disability Rights
  • Inclusive Education

What happens when we leave?

A patient has their eye examined by a doctor
Photos from a mobile outreach site in Ethiopia.
  • Disability Rights

Putting human rights at the heart of healthcare for people with disabilities

People struggle to walk through flooding
Cyclone Eloise caused severe flooding in low-lying Mozambique.
  • General
  • Disability Rights

No climate solution without disability inclusion

Amandine aus Burkina Faso sitzt an einem Tisch in der Inklusionsschule in Kaya, Burkina Faso. Ihre Hände liegen auf weißem Papier und sie übt, die Brailleschrift zu lesen. Sie wirkt sehr konzentriert.
This story was published in the donor publication Lichtblicke intern 1 2019 in Austria.
  • Disability Rights
  • Eye Health
  • Inclusive Education
  • Stories

World Literacy Day: Learning to read with your fingers

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
  • General
  • Disability Rights
  • Latest

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

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

Women activists with disabilities say: “#BreakTheBias!”

a young burkinabe girl in a wheelchair in the middle of her friends on a dirtpath through a cornfield
  • General
  • Disability Rights

12 practical ways to push disability up your organisation’s agenda