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Mozambique has been hit by four cyclones in two years, destroying the livelihoods of many people. © Mango Sound
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A nurse in green scrubs checks the eyes of a student in a classroom in Burkina Faso.
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Eye health progress in Burkina Faso

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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
30.09.2020

Long-lasting help reaps long-lasting health

A guest speaker in the studio, writing notes.
  • Disability Rights
  • Humanitarian Action
10.08.2020

Let’s Talk about COVID-19 and disability

Colin Allen Portrait
Colin Allen
  • Disability Rights
  • General
17.07.2020

New Ambassador for Light for the World

two Kenyan women seated in front of a fruit and vegetable stall. the woman on the left wears orthopaedic shoes and holds a notepad in her hands as she interviews the other woman about the impact of COVID
Kenya 2020. interview at the market about the impact of COVID
  • General
10.07.2020

Together for Inclusive Futures

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
09.07.2020

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
26.06.2020

Disability inclusive education only happens when all really means all

  • Humanitarian Action
15.04.2020

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
30.03.2020

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
16.03.2020

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
10.03.2020

Yetnebersh Nigussie becomes a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader