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Low vision boy Karthik (11 years old) feeling the surface of a globe. A resource teacher is helping him. In the middle between them there is a classmate of Karthik. She is also touching the globe. The picture was taken in the resource room of a school integrating handicapped children in Coimbatore, India.

World map of highlighting countries where CBM is active

Abigail (sitting in her wheelchair) at school. In the background sit her four best friends: (from left to right) Rejoice, Abby, Agness und Taliya

Our Vision, Mission and Values

Our Vision: An inclusive world in which all persons with disabilities enjoy their human rights and achieve their full potential.

Our Mission: CBM is an international Christian development organisation, committed to improving the quality of life of persons with disabilities in the poorest countries of the world...

525 Projects funded

11.95 million People receiving services

55 Countries

371 Partners

Trachoma Prevention Control Programm. Ethiopia, 2016.

CBM in Numbers

CBM helped millions of persons with disabilities and at-risk of disabilities improve their lives and end the vicious cycle of poverty and disability. See more 2018 figures.

CBM colleagues listen and talk with each other. Zimbabwe, 2019

19.08.2019

Commemorating World Humanitarian Day 2019, CBM highlights the work of two of its own women humanitarians working to support people in crisis.

A group of 11 people standing in front of a banner with logos of DFID and CBM.

09.08.2019

CBM and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) have released findings on the first ever disability audit of humanitarian projects in Nigeria. The report was presented at high-level workshop on disability inclusive humanitarian action in Abuja, in July 2019, a few days after a capacity building workshop in the north-east of the country.

David who has multiple impairments, including deafblindness, at a therapy lesson (about stimulation) with his mother and another patient.

27.06.2019

On the 27th of June we officially celebrate the anniversary of Helen Keller’s birth. To mark this important occasion, CBM has launched its Guidelines on Best Practice for Persons Living with Deafblindness.

19.06.2019

CBM runs two education projects in Kenya that support Kenya's new inclusive education policy. Fredrick Haga explains his education background and the policy in this Deutsche Welle interview.

Someon runs his own hardware shop with support from CBM (Kenya). ©CBM/argum/Einberger

18.06.2019

Ensuring quality in our work and consistent approach to partnerships, CBM rolls-out documents to support the implementation of Federation Strategy 2023.

22.05.2019

A cross-disciplinary team assessed the impact of CBM-supported eye health programmes in 6 countries. Download the evaluation and poster-presentation.

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