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Logo:Global Disability Summit 2018. Credit: DfID
Global Disability Summit 2018
More than 700 delegates to discuss aspects of disability inclusion at London summit
Key Visual: Her Abilities Award. Credit: Licht für die Welt / PKP BBDO
Her Abilities Award: A Spotlight on 99 Abilities
Nominations for Light for the World's new award start today
Photo: The Wilson family lost their son Charles Abui to Nodding Syndrome. Credit: Julia Gunther
Enigmatic illness adds to the burden of the South Sudanese civil war
Nodding Syndrome stunts growth, impairs cognition, causes epileptic seizures
Photo collage: empowered women with disabilities. Credit: Light for the World
Her Abilities Award
Light for the World announces first global award honouring achievements of women with disabilties
Photo:Robert Ssewagude, Light for the World beneficiary, Tanzania. Credit: Light for the World
Over £2 million to empower disabled people in Tanzania and Uganda
The East Africa Disability Fund awards £2.1 million of funding to six organisations
Photo: Light for the World's Senior Inclusion Advisor, Yetnebersh Nigussie, has been awarded the Right Livelihood Award 2017. Credit: Studio Casagrande
Right Livelihood Award for Yetnebersh Nigussie
Our Ethiopian colleague receives prestigious award

2015: Six important figures at a glance

medication
10,134,553
people received medication
eye consultation
1,123,116
eye consultations
cataract
50,863
cataract surgeries
rehabilitation
46,911
children with disabilities reached in rehabilitation programmes
26.185 trachoma surgeries
26,270
trachoma surgeries
7,812
children with disabilities received school education

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Josef Stockreiter
Josef Stockreiter
Donor

I know that LIGHT FOR THE WORLD is using my donation in an efficient manner to combat preventable blindness.

Ronald Boef
Ronald Boef
Ambassador, top-10 blind golf players in the world

I realise that I am privileged compared to other people with a visual impairment. I had the chance to make my dreams come true. Peers in developing countries deserve the same opportunities.

Gabriel Müller. Credit: Gregor Kuntscher
Gabriel Müller
Director International Alliances

Enabling underprivileged persons to have a better future is the most beautiful expression of humanity. They who give are truly rich.

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