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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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Amer Ajith, a Disability Inclusion Facilitator in Jonglei State sitting on a motorised tricycle in flood water in a village in Jonglei State.
Amer Ajith, a Disability Inclusion Facilitator in Jonglei State.
  • Humanitarian Action

Call to protect people with disabilities as ‘unprecedented’ floods hit South Sudan 

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Jane Weithera on a conference stepping up for her purpose to push inclusion forward.
  • General
17.06.2022

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
  • General
  • Disability Rights
  • Latest
02.05.2022

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
25.03.2022

Inclusion through sport

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.
  • General
24.03.2022

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.
  • General
08.03.2022

Tackling the discrimination behind women’s sight loss

Nyamit lives in the IDP camp Mahad. Her picture and story was used in several publications.
  • Disability Rights
08.03.2022

Women activists with disabilities say: “#BreakTheBias!”

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.
  • General
07.03.2022

Why inclusion is the challenge of the twenty-first century

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
01.03.2022

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
17.02.2022

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
15.02.2022

Global Disability Summit 2022: committing to change