Category: Humanitarian Action

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