Overview
"Little Lions" at School
Every morning, Ania and her grandmother, Bohuslava, walk to Ania’s school—often, they have to walk through high snowbanks. The 11-year-old has multiple impairments and attends the only integrated school for visual and multiply impaired children in Lviv, Ukraine.
more »Marks on People’s Minds
The Philippines typhoons of 2004 left marks not only on the land in Quezon Province, but also on the lives of people. CBM's partner Operation Compassion has developed a comprehensive rehabilitation programme to enhance the psychosocial wellbeing of survivors.
more »Raising Hopes for the Future
Saving as a start – this unusual way of rehabilitating communities after a disaster has been taken by CBM’s partner Operation Compassion after the typhoon catastrophe of 2004. Rehabilitation is understood in a comprehensive way and includes psychosocial rehabilitation.
more »What The Soil Has To Offer
When up to 10 metres of mud covered his land—and houses around the neighbourhood — Danielo Tanyhan did not know what to do. Logs were everywhere. The mud covered the soil, and the farmer could not see the field on which he had planted on before.
more »Others Are Not So Lucky
Abba Musa cannot walk. He couldn’t find a job and did not know how to earn a living. That was seven years ago. Then, CBM’s partner, the welfare department of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja, offered him shoemaker training course.
more »Fatmeh Shows How Clever She Is
When Fatmeh started kindergarten, she had not yet learned to speak. She made herself understood with informal "home" signs. At the Holy Land Institute for the Deaf in Salt, Jordan, Fatmeh found herself immersed in the world of Jordanian Sign Language.
more »New Homes and Hopes After the Tsunami
In Sri Lanka, CBM supports the rehabilitation of coastal villages. People there suffered devastation and death after the catastrophe of December 2004. More than 30,000 people were killed and 835,000 lost their homes. Read more about CBM's rehabilitation programmes.
more »Saving Babies from Going Blind
How can you tell if a baby needs low-vision services or if it goes blind? Babies and young children cannot explain what their problems are. CBM supports the provision of eye care services to babies and young children in Brazil.
more »We Do Something That Patients Like
The Sagarmatha Choudhary Eye Hospital is situated in Lahan/Nepal. This eye hospital has gained worldwide reputation, partly due to the high amount of cataract surgeries performed per year. It has been supported by CBM Christian Blind Mission since 1982.
more »CBM ear work in Madagascar
When former CBM medical advisor Dr Piet van Hasselt examined patient Nancy's ears with the otoscope (an instrument for visual inspection of the ear), he saw that Nancy has otitis media, or middle ear infection. Read more about the work of the former CBM advisor in Madagascar.
more »CBM's Flying Doctors Take Eye Care to Persons with Visual Disabilities
Based in the Goroka Eye Clinic in the Eastern highlands, Eye Care staff goes on regular outreach trips - often by airplane to remote or mountainous parts of Papua New Guinea.
more »A Drop in the Ocean
An Italian coworker manages an orthopaedic workshop in Kampala/Uganda. Sergio Mainetti, together with his wife and children has been living there for eight years. How does he cope with so many children with physical disabilities, who need orthopaedic devices from his workshop?
more »Emilio and Giovannie Support Equal Opportunities In Iriga
In the Filipino province of Camarines Sur, Emilio and Giovannie are advocates for equal opportunities of persons with disabilities - both in their own way.
more »Kenya Flood: Access To Clean Water Essential
According to the UN, the lives of more than 700,000 people are endangered by heavy rains and floods in Kenya. CBM’s partner have provided additional nutrition for young children. Access to clean water is also essential to prevent people from going blind from trachoma.
more »What Will Become of Him When I Die?
CBM supports persons with mental disorders in the Philippines. Here is the story of the community of Salvacion, a parish belonging to Santo Domingo, Luzon. CBM's partner the Brothers of Charity, pioneer in the field of mental health.
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