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A patient has their eye examined by a doctor
Photos from a mobile outreach site in Ethiopia.
  • Disability Rights

Putting human rights at the heart of healthcare for people with disabilities

Header image of Simon Madol
Simon Madol, Head Coach of the Blind Football team as a Disability Inclusion Facilitator at Light for the World in South Sudan. © Light for the World
  • General
  • Humanitarian Action
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  • Stories

Promoting peace through football

People struggle to walk through flooding
Cyclone Eloise caused severe flooding in low-lying Mozambique.
  • General
  • Disability Rights

No climate solution without disability inclusion

Amandine aus Burkina Faso sitzt an einem Tisch in der Inklusionsschule in Kaya, Burkina Faso. Ihre Hände liegen auf weißem Papier und sie übt, die Brailleschrift zu lesen. Sie wirkt sehr konzentriert.
This story was published in the donor publication Lichtblicke intern 1 2019 in Austria.
  • Disability Rights
  • Eye Health
  • Inclusive Education
  • Stories

World Literacy Day: Learning to read with your fingers

Minata sitzt an einem Holztisch und liest die Blindenschrift Braille. Sie trägt ein gelbes T-Shirt und hinter ihr ist die Tafel des Klassenzimmers zu sehen.
  • Inclusive Education

Digital Technologies – The Game Changer in Inclusive Education

Die vierjährige Nyamush sitzt am Boden im Südsudan umringt von ihren Schulkolleg*innen. Alle Kinder tragen eine gelbe Bluse mit schwarzem Kragen und schwarze Hosen. Ihr Blick ist wach und interessiert nach oben gerichtet.
Four-year-old Nyamush, a little girl we discovered in one of the IDP camps in Juba, South Sudan, smiling with her sister. She has hydrocephalus, and other growth/physical disabilities, but in the year and a half since we found her, she has started going to school (which she loves!) and is learning alongside other children.
  • Inclusive Education

Beyond a one-size-fits-all approach: celebrating difference with inclusive education

Elie Bagbila, a Burkinabe man in his mid-50ies with glasses and an orange patterned shirt gives a presentation
Elie Bagbila speaks about Light for the World's engagement with Organisations of Persons with Disabilities
  • General
  • Disability Rights
  • Latest

Elie Bagbila: our new Global Head of Rights and Advocacy

Die Teams beim Rollstuhlbasketball im Kampf um den Ball, während dieser durch die Luft geworfen wird.
  • Humanitarian Action
  • Disability Rights

Inclusion through sport

Nyamit lives in the IDP camp Mahad. Her picture and story was used in several publications.
  • Disability Rights

Women activists with disabilities say: “#BreakTheBias!”

Burkinabe woman with glasses and shoulder-length curly hair in a white lab coat and a facemask under her chin standing next to ophthalmic machine
  • Eye Health
  • Mandate

2030 IN SIGHT: What’s next for global eye health?