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"Little Lions" at School

Ania looks at geometrical figures. She has to hold them closely in front of her eyes to be able to recognize them.

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.

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Marks on People’s Minds

A bridge across Agos river ends in the middle of the water. People have to take a taxi boat, if they wish to cross the river. The typhoons of December 2004 have destroyed the bridge, and left more marks in the lives of the people.

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.

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Raising Hopes for the Future

People sit on plastic chairs in a circle among trees.

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.

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What The Soil Has To Offer

Farmer standing in front of his field. The sun is shining and large white clouds hang deep in the sky.

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.

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Others Are Not So Lucky

Abba Musa in his shoemaker‘s workshop together with a visitor. He is wearing a mask to protect him from dust, and is grinding a shoe.

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.

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Fatmeh Shows How Clever She Is

Fatmeh standing in front of the blackboard with her teacher for sign language.

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.

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New Homes and Hopes After the Tsunami

Portrait of Meulet, Priyan and Priyantha in front of their future home made of brick. It has big doors and windows.

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.

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Saving Babies from Going Blind

Dr. Andrea Zin, doing a laser-operation on a premature born baby in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil.

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.

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We Do Something That Patients Like

Binda Devi after successful cataract operation. She looks happy. Mrs. Devi travelled some 180 kilometres from India to get to Lahan for being operated.

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.

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Advisor Dr Piet van Hasselt on assignment in Madagascar

Dr van Hasselt examines Nancy‘s ears with the otoscope.

When Dr van Hasselt examines Nancy's ears with the otoscope (an instrument for visual inspection of the ear), he sees that Nancy has otitis media, or middle ear infection. Read more about the work of the CBM advisor in Madagascar.

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CBM's Flying Doctors Take Eye Care to Persons with Visual Disabilities

An elder woman is smiling happily after a blindfold is removed from her eye. She suffered from cataract.

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.

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A Drop in the Ocean

CBM expert Sergio Mainetti.

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?

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"You are not admitted, because you can’t see"

The painting shows flowers in a vase. The Picture was done by Minh, 12 years old, who has low vision and attends a similar school to the one described, in Vietnam.

CBM’s partner promotes inclusive education for visually disabled and blind children in Ho Chi Minh City, since learning and living together with non-disabled children contributes to the inclusion of people with disabilities in society.

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Kenya Flood: Access To Clean Water Essential

Baby with flies on its face.

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.

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What Will Become of Him When I Die?

A young man wearing a green t-shirt, stands in the middle of a room, gesturing and smiling.

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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Emilio and Giovannie Support Equal Opportunities In Iriga

A family, on the left, Emilio standing, puts his hand on the shoulder of his mother, who sits in a chair.

In the Filipino province of Camarines Sur, Emilio and Giovannie are advocates for equal opportunities of persons with disabilities - both in their own way.

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New publication about cbm's work, vision and values

Cover page of the new publication

We invite you to share our vision to improve the quality of life of persons with disabilities and to reduce the risk of disability from disease and exclusion for those who live in the most disadvantaged societies around the world.

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World Health Organization thanks cbm for its outstanding work

Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General WHO and Dr Allen Foster, cbm President

cbm President Professor Allen Foster met with World Health Organisation Director-General Dr Margaret Chan, for the WHO's global initiative to eliminate avoidable blindness "Vision 2020: The Right to Sight” on the eve of World Sight Day 2007 at the WHO's headquarters in

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Projects worldwide

Projects worldwide