Facts and Figures

Details on overseas work

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In 2006, CBM was active in 112 countries, on 4 continents, in 1,011 projects and with 126 co-workers. The work in figures: 18,324,501 people with disabilities received assistance - 16.5 per cent more than in 2005. CBM worked together with 763 partner organisations.

Further information is included in CBM's Report of Activities 2006, 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