Category: Mandate

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?

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.

Disability Rights

A first for South Sudan’s disability movement

Inclusive Education

Achieving quality learning for all

Franciscu from Mozambique has just had cataract surgery. He holds his laughing granddaughter in his arms and looks into the camera. — Franciscu Chivesera underwent surgery on one eye for a bilateral cataract. © Ulrich Eigner

Eye Health

Long-lasting help reaps long-lasting health

A guest speaker in the studio, writing notes.

Disability Rights
Humanitarian Action

Let’s Talk about COVID-19 and disability

Colin Allen Portrait — Colin Allen

Disability Rights
General

New Ambassador for Light for the World

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

Vincent looks at the blackboard. His teacher points with a stick at a word he seems to be reading. — Vincent is deaf and goes to an inclusive school in Burkina Faso © Gregor Kuntscher

Inclusive Education

Disability inclusive education only happens when all really means all

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