CARE-Belize

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Project Name: CARE-Belize
Project Description: CBR Programme / Service
for Multiple Disabled
Children
Location: Belize, Belize City
Project Information: Partner BCVI (P1515) initiated a pilot project in Toledo district in 2002. Following 6 months of developing and initiating this pilot project, over 50 children were identified as having a physical disability. On november 2002, CARE-Belize was officially chartered as NGO embracing the concept of Community Based Rehabilitation. At close 2005 the agency was providing CBR Services to over 110 children in 5 of 6 districs all over the country. The aim of the programme is to provide nationwide Rehabilitation, Education, Advocacy and Networking Services to disabled children from birth to six using a CBR model.

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CBM active in post-emergency phase on the ground in Haiti

Washline had a femur fracture treated with an internal fixator and still needs crutches to walk. Port-au-Prince after the earthquake which hit Haiti on 12 January 2010.

CBM has raised more than two million EUR for Haiti's Emergency response and reconstruction programmes. The situation in the Haitian capital remains tough for persons with disabilities. Photo: CBM

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CBM supports Partner in Concepción, Chile

A collapsed building in Talca, approximately 300 km (186 miles) south of Santiago, Chile. A magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck the Latin American country in the early hours of February 27, 2010. Picture copyright: Reuters/Victor Ruiz Caballero, courtesy www.alertnet.org

Picture copyright: Reuters/Victor Ruiz Caballero, courtesy www.alertnet.org
Following the 8.8-magnitude earthquake with epicentre close to the Chilean city of Concepción and aftershocks, CBM will support its Partner in the region. CBM has one Partner Project in need of reconstruction, located in Concepción, the country's second largest city.

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