Category: Mandate

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?

a young burkinabe girl in a wheelchair in the middle of her friends on a dirtpath through a cornfield

General
Disability Rights

12 practical ways to push disability up your organisation’s agenda

screenshot of Nafisa, a South African woman with shoulder-length darkbrown hair. logos of Light for the World and the Global Disability Summit are in the top corners. — Nafisa Baboo presents Light for the World GDS commitments.

Disability Rights
Latest

Global Disability Summit 2022: committing to change

Ella, a Burkinabe woman in her mid-thirties in her wheelchair with another member of their women's group next to her. Ella wears a sleeveless white top and smiles.

General
Disability Rights

3 things to expect from the Global Disability Summit

a gray and white EVO10 audio player held in the hands of a Burkinabe student

General
Inclusive Education

International Day of Education 2022: Transformation through accessible technology