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Category: Humanitarian Action

two Burkinabe girls wearing identical blue patterned skirts stand behind the food supplies and school kits they received
Two Burkinabe girls from an IDP site are collecting their emergency food supplies and school kits.
  • General
  • Economic Empowerment
  • Humanitarian Action

RéCouVrer – Together for a better future

Light for the World Staff members with medical supply boxes
  • Disability Rights
  • Economic Empowerment
  • Eye Health
  • Humanitarian Action
  • Inclusive Education

2020 – a year of good things?

A guest speaker in the studio, writing notes.
  • Disability Rights
  • Humanitarian Action

Let’s Talk about COVID-19 and disability

Isabella, a young Ugandan woman with disability trained as disability inclusion facilitator, coordinating the food distribution in Karamoja in Northern Uganda.
Isabella is a Disability Inclusion Facilitator. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, she coordinated food distribution for vulnerable communities in Northern Uganda.
  • Humanitarian Action

5 ways we’re helping people with disabilities weather COVID-19 in East Africa

  • Humanitarian Action

Responding to the unprecedented – Light for the World and ‘COVID-19’

A young boy is washing his hand from a water canister that is fixated on wood.
Child washing hands in Mozambique.
  • Disability Rights
  • Humanitarian Action

In the coronavirus crisis, people with disabilities face higher risks

Nurse Julia explaining the medication to her patient © Light for the World
Júlia Vasco is a nurse in the outskirts of Beira. She is worried she might spread COVID-19 to her four children.
  • Disability Rights
  • Humanitarian Action

Leaving no one behind during the COVID 19 outbreak

A European Man in a grey T-Shirt sits in between young meen wearing green T-Shirts.
  • Disability Rights
  • Humanitarian Action

Being a Refugee with a Disability

Nyamit lives in the IDP camp Mahad, South Sudan © Julia Gunther
Nyamit lives in the IDP camp Mahad. Her picture and story was used in several publications.
  • Humanitarian Action
  • Disability Rights

Refugees with disabilities