Category: General

Header image for article featuring a close-up of a child's face as their eyes are examined — Eye consultation campaign to screen and treat eye problems among internally displaced people and the communities they live in.

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Eye health: time to expand our vision

Nafisa Baboo smiling with a group of 6 Ethiopian children. Nafisa has lightbrown skin, short dark hear and wears a red sleaveless dress. — Nafisa Baboo, Light for the World Director for Inclusive Education, with Ethiopian children

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Transforming education begins with inclusion

Rupert Roniger, Marion Lieser

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Welcome Marion Lieser, Light for the World’s new Chief Executive Officer

Jane Weithera on a conference stepping up for her purpose to push inclusion forward.

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COSP 2022: Why it matters

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

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Disability Rights
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Elie Bagbila: our new Global Head of Rights and Advocacy

four Cambodian project participants riding a transport tricycle on a dirt road. The driver is male and waves and smiles. 2 men and one woman sit behind him on the cart. — Participants of a workshop on designing accessible agriculture solutions are testing their prototype ofa transport tricycle.

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New horizons for Light for the World Cambodia

An older Ethiopian woman wearing white traditional clothing and headscarf sits next to three men in the waiting room of a mobile eye health outreach. She responds to questions from a health professional in a white coat. — Mullu sits in the waiting area of a mobile eye health outreach in Amba and talks to a medical professional.

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Tackling the discrimination behind women’s sight loss

Tom Shakespeare (new International Chair of Light for the World) at a kick-off event to the Zero Conference 2022 at the Austrian Parliament on the 22nd of February 2022.

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Why inclusion is the challenge of the twenty-first century

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

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Disability Rights

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

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.

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Disability Rights

3 things to expect from the Global Disability Summit