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People are holding a giant multi-coloured fabric. They have their hands in the air and the mood is celebratory,
RED NOSES and Light for the World partners take part in a workshop.
  • Humanitarian Action
  • Disability Rights
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Fun and games: breaking down stereotypes in Mozambique

A classroom of learners sitting together on a carpet on the floor of a community nursery class in an IDP camp in Juba, South Sudan, whilst their teacher stands in front of them, signing. The teacher has her back to the camera and raises both her hands, which the children are copying her sign language.
Disability Inclusion Facilitator, Esther Piro, teaches sign language to a classroom of children with and without disabilities in a camp for IDPs in Juba, South Sudan. Light for the World supported the development of a new South Sudanese sign language dictionary, in collaboration with the Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare and South Sudan Association of the Deaf, which was published in 2021. © Bullen Chol.
  • Humanitarian Action
  • Inclusive Education

Inclusive education in South Sudan: education in emergencies for children with disabilities

Image of two girls with food kits received as part of the emergency education project in Kossi.
  • Inclusive Education
  • Humanitarian Action

Conflict-displaced pupils in Burkina Faso get chance to continue education

Image of Nyakhan James, a one-year-old refugee with hydrocephalus, being held by her aunt Elizabeth Nyaper.
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Sudan conflict: the impact on refugees with disabilities

Grace displays crops for sale in Uganda
Grace received funding from Light For the World through the Make 12.4% Work programme in Uganda, which promoted disability inclusive employment throughout the country, including through sustainable agricultural practices. She used the funds to venture into selling vegetables and maize. The returns from selling these foodstuffs have helped her provide for her family.
  • Humanitarian Action

An inclusive response to the climate emergency

An image of Zehara Mohamed Ali, a trader with a disability, who has benefitted from a VSLA loan.
Zehara Mohamed Ali, a trader with a disability, was able to re-start her business after receiving a VSLA loan. © Light for the World.
  • General
  • Economic Empowerment
  • Humanitarian Action

Combining emergency response with lasting resilience in Ethiopia

Image of The Mangateen camp for Internally Displaced People in Juba, South Sudan. The camp is hosting more than 4,200 returnees who have fled the conflict in Sudan.
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As hundreds of thousands flee Sudan, inclusion must be prioritised

Image of Peter Rosario, a Disability Inclusion Facilitator and entrepreneur in Wau, South Sudan. Peter is standing outside his store which sells cigarettes, tea leaves, charcoal, sweets, batteries, cooking oil, blankets and mosquito nets.
  • Humanitarian Action
  • Economic Empowerment
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‘I want to be self-reliant’ — encouraging enterprise for Internally Displaced People

The aftermath of Cyclone Idai in Mozambique.
The aftermath of Cyclone Idai in Mozambique.
  • Humanitarian Action
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Weathering the storm: a human response to climate disasters

A Light for the World employee helps moving someone's wheelchair in the rubble.
A Light for the World employee helps moving someone's wheelchair in the rubble.
  • Humanitarian Action

How to be inclusive when a crisis hits