Programme
CCBRT
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Abdullah is Quality Control Supervisor and wheelchair technologist at the CCBRT's 'House of Hope' in Tanzania
- High quality medical care
- Community based rehabilitation
Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania (CCBRT) is a locally registered non-governmental organisation first established in 1994. It is now the largest indigenous provider of disability and rehabilitation services in the country.
CCBRT comprises a well established disability hospital in Dar es Salaam, community programmes in and around Dar es Salaam and Moshi, a training unit and an advocacy unit.
Every year, around 120,000 adults and children with disabilities and their caregivers achieve a better quality of life through CCBRT services.
M-Pesa - an innovative transport payment scheme
CBM is helping fund CCBRT's M-Pesa scheme – an innovative new project transporting people to the centre. M-Pesa is the phone company Vodacom's mobile phone money-transfer service: M stands for mobile phone, pesa is Swahili for money.
Under this scheme, regional representatives locate people requiring medical help and alert CCBRT, which transfers the money to pay for the person's bus fare by text message. Read about this here - Roads to rehabilitation (Guardian, November 2010).
December 2010 - Since CCBRT started this mobile phone banking project, they have quadrupled the numbers of cleft lip surgeries and more than doubled the fistula surgeries in less than one year.
Spreading the word
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CCBRT informs communities about hugely debilitating - yet often readily treatable - conditions in various ways.
The bus shown here carries messages explaining cleft lip and obstetric fistula, and provides direct contact details for anyone who may need.
As well as helping individuals directly, spreading information in this way helps make these issues acceptable topics of public discussion, effectively reducing the likelihood that people affected by them will be hidden from society.
