Category: Mandate

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

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

Yetnebersh Nigussie speaks into a microphone at a conference. She is wearing a blue blazer and a white T-shirt. — Yetnebersh Nigussie became World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. The Forum of Young Global Leaders is an independent non-profit foundation established by Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum. It brings together outstanding individuals for a five-year, personalized leadership program. Young Global Leaders lead governments and over 500 companies, are holders of Nobel Prizes and Academy Awards, and they serve as UN Special Ambassadors. © Light for the World

Disability Rights

Yetnebersh Nigussie becomes a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader

Eye Health

Global eye health expert Dr. Wabulembo joins Light for the World

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