Overview

A hundred-year commitment to people with disabilities

A teenage boy with visual impairment uses a typewriter, Bolivia

Father Miguel Donohue of the Tarija Asociación Amigos de Niños Excepcionales (ANET) tells us how cbm helps to offer education and rehabilitation to young people of the Tarija region in South Bolivia.

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Touching someone’s life: a report from the Kotagiri Medical Fellowship Hospital, Tamil Nadu, India

Woman with child with a disability, India

In Kotagiri, Tamil Nadu, India, a hospital funded by CBM serves plantation labourers and the local tribal population. The hospital receives approximately 2000 new blind patients per year.

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A restored dream- the story of Kiprono, Kikuyu Hospital Eye Unit

A patient has their eyes tested in Kenya

A CBM-assisted partner project in Kenya helped to give Kiprono, a promising teenager, his sight back. CBM is celebrating the donors to this and similar projects around the world as part of its centenary year.

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Congratulations, CBM!

”CBM has given hope to countless people with blindness and other disabilities and opened to them a better chance of full participation in community life.” German Chancellor Angela Merkel endorses CBM's work in its centennial year with these words.

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Canadian governor-general praises work of CBM

May the festivities surrounding this milestone in your history draw even more volunteers to your cause, Jean tells CBM.

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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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Projects worldwide

Projects worldwide