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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

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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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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Andera Delfyna, Learning and Innovation Expert at Light for the World, facilitating a co-creation session. She is smiling and handing a piece of paper to a programme participant. — Andera Delfyna, Learning and Innovation Expert at Light for the World, facilitates a co-creation session.

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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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A young woman of short stature, dressed in red and holding a microphone, shares learnings from a We Can Work Academy training session. — A young woman of short stature shares her learnings during a training session in Uganda © Erika Bojarczuk / Light for the World.

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Finding fulfilling jobs: 4 ways to support young people with disabilities

A female trainer stands and shares learnings with the programme participants. She wears glasses, a light blue dress, and holds note books in her hands. Her expression is engaging. — A trainer provides input on core life skills during a session of the We Can Work Academy. © Light for the World

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Teresa laughs outside, with 8 of her friends standing behind her. She sits in a wheelchair and holds her schoolbags and pencils. — Teresa Jordão is 15 years old and lives in Mafarinha in Mozambique. Physical rehabilitation, supported by Light for the World, has greatly improved Teresa’s mobility. Her father, Jordão Vinte, believes that it is truly important to invest in and ensure an inclusive environment at school, so that all children with disabilities can learn equally.

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