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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.
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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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Inclusive sports partnership with adidas Foundation

Several people, including Light for the World staff stand in front of a Light for the World banner smiling to celebrate the launch of We Can Work, one of the good news stories of 2023.
Light for the World and the Mastercard Foundation have partnered to enable young people with disabilities to access dignified and fulfilling work by 2030 through the “We Can Work” programme. We will work closely with the African Disability Forum, and national OPDs in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal.
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Our 2025 Global Disability Summit commitments

Two women are outside smiling and high fiving with all hands. Doreck stands up wearing a white tshirt and Naome sits in a wheelchair with a grey shirt and leggings. You can tell they are good friends and having fun together,
Group images as part of the DIF video series. Naome and Doreck high five.
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Disability Inclusion Facilitators: young changemakers putting inclusion into action

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February 2025 News Wrap

Two people stand in a field looking into the distance at green. There is a line of plastic bottles closer to the camera than the people. One woman is wearing an orange and red outfit, and David Ndungu is on the left in a white top and black trousers, using crutches.
David Ndungu and a colleague take a break while developing the elephant deterrents.
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January 2025 News Wrap

TO COME © Jens Dörre/Light for the World
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13 good news stories in 2024 

A woman wearing earings and a party dress is holding an a golden award tropy. © Doreck Ankunda / Light for the World
Doreck Ankunda, a Disability Inclusion Facilitator and one of the stars of When You Become Me, holds her award. © Doreck Ankunda / Light for the World
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October 2024 News Wrap 

It is a big head that says mental health matters, with speech bubbles all around the head. Every person that came to an event I held last year did a painting of those bubbles. We had different colours, which depicts our differences, we all have different things that resonate with. It also symbolizes that we are all at different stages, we are all willing to grow and our collective belief gave us that full picture. We all used different colors, but that is what made it beautiful.
A drawing from many collaborators depicting their mental health
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10 lessons on disability inclusive mental health from an expert

Six people are outside, in a red clay field. There are green tress in the distance. They are testing out adapted farming equipment, a woman sits on a machine with wheels.
A group of people test out an adapted farming tool developed in an AgriLab
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September 2024 News Wrap