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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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Four players from the South Sudan blind football league. Two players are holding aloft the arm of another player. The three are smiling as they come off the pitch and wearing football shirts with Blind Football on the front.
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Die Gewinnerinnen des Her Abilities Award 2020
Die Gewinnerinnen des Her Abilities Award 2020
  • Disability Rights
02.02.2021

Announcing the 2020 Her Abilities Award Winners!

two Burkinabe girls wearing identical blue patterned skirts stand behind the food supplies and school kits they received
Two Burkinabe girls from an IDP site are collecting their emergency food supplies and school kits.
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  • Economic Empowerment
  • Humanitarian Action
24.01.2021

RéCouVrer – Together for a better future

Light for the World Staff members with medical supply boxes
  • Disability Rights
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  • Eye Health
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  • Inclusive Education
21.12.2020

2020 – a year of good things?

Nyamit lives in the IDP camp Mahad, South Sudan © Julia Gunther
Nyamit lives in the IDP camp Mahad. Her picture and story was used in several publications.
  • Disability Rights
27.10.2020

A first for South Sudan’s disability movement

  • 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.
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  • 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
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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