Our partners in the field
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Child in Tadelle, Ethiopia, washes her face. Regular washing of the eyes in clean water can help to prevent trachoma.
CBM's work with persons with disabilities in developing countries is carried out together with over 700 local and national partner organisations in over 800 programmes. Partner-driven work helps to make CBM's work across the different mandate areas sustainable, because it is community-based and involves locally- trained staff.
Field work: some statistics
- CBM works together with over 700 partner organisations. Approximately 50 per cent of these are faith-based organisations, with the rest made up of secular organisations or government agencies.
- The majority of CBM partner programmes are located geographically in Africa and Asia, with a fairly large number in Central and Latin America and relatively few in Europe or classed as 'Inter-Regional'.
- The majority of partner projects support health care services, with almost as many again providing education and rehabilitation services.
- Community-based rehabilitation (CBR) services make up approximately one third of all health care services offered, and education a still higher number.
- Of the health care services, eye care is still the largest group, with orthopaedic and ear services the next largest.
- Education and rehabilitation services are offered, including not just CBR, but early intervention, inclusive education, vocational training and livelihood and training centres for teachers of specialised groups.
