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Women and children in Mozambique holding on to their goods
Mozambique has been hit by four cyclones in two years, destroying the livelihoods of many people. © Mango Sound
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Duncan Mwirichia, a landscape gardener and entrepreneur who has a hearing disability. Duncan is a Kenyan man, wearing blue overalls. He is holding a green plant and standing in front of a row of plants. He is smiling.
Duncan Mwirichia, a landscape gardener and entrepreneur who has a hearing disability.
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  • Economic Empowerment

Starting your own business: tips for entrepreneurs with disabilities 

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  • Inclusive Education
30.09.2020

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
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