Facts and Figures

Details on overseas work

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Total programme expenditure in low and middle income countries was 65 million Euros, an increase of 8 per cent on 2006. In 2007, CBM was active in over 114 countries on 4 continents, with over 1,000 projects and more than 120 co-workers. The work in figures: 21.3 million people with disabilities received assistance in 2007 - 17 per cent more than in 2006.

Further information is included in CBM's Fact Sheets 2008, which you can download as a pdf file. To read the pdf you need the Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you can download at the Adobe website.
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Projects worldwide

Projects worldwide