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CBM is taking active steps to ensure that its Community Based Inclusive Development (CBID) work in disaster-prone areas incorporates Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction (DiDRR) into pre-and post-disaster and long-term recovery work.

CBM has ordered eye equipment to be installed at 33 of CBM’s partner facilities in 15 countries, benefitting thousands of patients.

Are you attending the GPDRR 2022 in Bali, Indonesia? Look out for these insightful CBM events.

In the last week, CBM partner, The Sindh Institute of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences (SIOVS) in Hyderabad, Pakistan received the first shipment of eyeglasses and lenses.

By 2050, nearly 2.5 billion people will be living with some degree of hearing loss, at least 700 million of whom will require rehabilitation services. This World Hearing Day – observed every year on March 3rd – CBM is encouraging everyone to check their own ears and take care of their hearing health long term. Diego Santana-Hernández, Senior Ear and Hearing Care Advisor at CBM explains why.

Where is the last mile? Is it where concrete ends, and dirt begins? Where the buses stop and motos go? Where women walk miles with babes in arms tucked into multi coloured wax cloths? I had the opportunity to reflect on this term that we bandy about in our work in NTD prevention as my colleagues and I bounced through miles of rainwater inundated mud roads in Northern Democratic Republic of Congo.

This February governments, businesses, development professionals, and Organisations of People with Disabilities come together at the Global Disability Summit to commit to change and do more to include over one billion people with disabilities, many of whom live in some of the world’s poorest countries.

CBM’s work in Ethiopia has provided 250,000 people with water and informed 1.8 million people on the cause, prevention and treatment of trachoma and the importance of facial cleanliness and environmental sanitation.

Exceptional commitment to inclusion, accessibility, universal design; this is CBM’s Vietnam project which brings home the 2022 Zero Project Award today. The award celebrates CBM’s work in Vietnam which builds disability inclusive and disaster prepared communities.

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) are especially important in the elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) like Trachoma which causes blindness. In this interview, Girija Sankar, CBM’s Head of NTD Programmes discusses the importance of water in beating NTDs.

Our project “Phase 2 – Leave no one behind!” promotes the inclusion of persons with disabilities in humanitarian action. Based on the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Guidelines on the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action, we support a better understanding of the human rights-based approach to disability in humanitarian action.

The savings model has provided Haitians with an opportunity to mobilise funds and build their businesses to secure their livelihoods.

In 2020, CBM alongside its long-standing partners in India – Sundarban Social Development Centre (SSDC) and The Leprosy Mission Trust India (TLMTI) – conducted a 7-month long humanitarian project from June to December 2020 to provide relief aid for those affected by Cyclone Amphan.

As the year comes to an end, we reflect on important events and achievements for our organisation this year.

Exceptional commitment to inclusion, accessibility, universal design; this is CBM’s Vietnam project which brings home the 2022 Zero Project Award today. The award celebrates CBM’s work in Vietnam which builds disability inclusive and disaster prepared communities.

CBM supports children, women, and men in Kenya with food, water, and school meals.

The ‘Community Based Inclusive Development’ (CBID) Initiative at CBM launched an Innovation Fund in 2021. With this Fund, we want to celebrate and encourage the ingenuity of people we work with and the power of community. This fund provides a space for creative thinking about social innovation with practical impact on the lives of persons with disabilities in their communities.

On the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, CBM urges everyone to acknowledge persons with disabilities and enable them to participate in all aspects of life.

CBM marks World NTD Day - 30th January 2022- Celebrating progress and taking action to #EndtheNeglect and #BeatNTDs

As part of the partnership between CBM and Peek Vision, a new school eye health programme is underway in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It is the first CBM-Peek programme to launch in the country and is being implemented by our partner ALERT Hospital in collaboration with district health and education authorities.

CBM’s work in eye health started in 1908, and 112 years on, it has expanded to 106 partners across 35 countries implementing 124 projects in eye care and neglected tropical diseases. Along with numbers, there has been an immense progress in the way work is delivered, how surgery, planning and partnerships have improved.

As part of the partnership between CBM and Peek Vision, a new school eye health programme is underway in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It is the first CBM-Peek programme to launch in the country and is being implemented by our partner ALERT Hospital in collaboration with district health and education authorities.

Indonesia, a country exposed to a wide range of natural hazards, including earthquakes and tsunamis, will host the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2022 (GPDRR).

CBM is delighted to announce the publication of the latest in its Disability-Inclusive Development (DID) book series. The book, entitled “My Right is Our Future: The Transformative Power of Disability-Inclusive Education” explores the essential elements needed to ensure that inclusive education ensures DID.

On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD), celebrated annually on 3 December, we draw attention to a recently launched handbook on early rehabilitation in conflicts and disasters.

Results of a trial published in Lancet Global Health this month could pave the way for significant improvements in treatment for glaucoma in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Since August 2017, extreme violence in Myanmar has driven almost 860,000 Rohingya refugees across the border into Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh. In partnership with the Centre for Disability in Development (CDD), CBM has been providing health and rehabilitation services in the Rohingya camps and host community for four years. Now we are excited to share our documentation on the CBM/CDD model of health and rehabilitation service provision.

Where is the last mile? Is it where concrete ends, and dirt begins? Where the buses stop and motos go? Where women walk miles with babes in arms tucked into multi coloured wax cloths? I had the opportunity to reflect on this term that we bandy about in our work in NTD prevention as my colleagues and I bounced through miles of rainwater inundated mud roads in Northern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Every 19 August, we celebrate World Humanitarian Day to honour humanitarian efforts made around the globe and to assert the need for supporting people in crisis. This year, we celebrate our local partner staff Esung Elizabeth Mbende, a humanitarian worker at the frontline of the conflict in Cameroon.

Earlier this year, CBM along with its local partner Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre for Disabled Children (HRDC) organised a mobile health and rehabilitation camp in Nepal.

Every 19 August, we celebrate World Humanitarian Day to honour humanitarian efforts made around the globe and to assert the need for supporting people in crisis. This year, we celebrate our local partner staff Esung Elizabeth Mbende, a humanitarian worker at the frontline of the conflict in Cameroon.

Christian Blind Mission supports new strategy for eyesight.

This is the 4th year of the UN International Day of Education, on 24 January. This year the theme is "Changing Course, Transforming Education".

An interview with 29-year old Nirmala Puri, who works as a Multi-Skilled Rehabilitation Assistant in the CBM supported ‘Inclusive Development of Children’ (IDC) project, which is being implemented by our partner Hospital and Rehabilitation Center for Disabled Children (HRDC) in Nepal.

As part of CBM’s celebration of World Sight Day - 14th October 2021- and its message on the importance of eye health for everyone, we are launching our Inclusive Eye Health Initiative Annual Report.

World Sight Day (WSD) is an annual day of awareness and education around blindness and visual impairment. This year it will be celebrated on Thursday 14 October, with the theme ‘Love Your Eyes’.

More than 49 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo are at risk from Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). Community Health Workers supported by CBM help to distribute vital treatments every year in some of the hardest to reach communities.

CBM's annual report on our work to tackle Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) has just been launched during this year’s NTD NGO Conference.

Every 19 August, we celebrate World Humanitarian Day to honour humanitarian efforts made around the globe and to assert the need for supporting people in crisis. This year, we celebrate our local partner staff Esung Elizabeth Mbende, a humanitarian worker at the frontline of the conflict in Cameroon.

CBM Zimbabwe Country Director, Ms. Deborah Tigere bagged two awards in the Directors category following nominations from Institute of Directors Zimbabwe (IODZ).

Dr. Honorine Nizeyimana received a CBM grant earlier this year and has already started training in Uganda to be an ophthalmologist. In conversation with the 34-year-old doctor from Burundi, she tells us what the job means to her.

On International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2020, read the inspiring story of Lydia Maundé from Malawi. Thanks to CBM-supported partners in Malawi (Macoha and Nkhoma Hospital) Lydia has regained her vision and can participate in daily life again.

On the occasion of the World Community Development Conference, CBM is launching its first ever ‘Community Based Inclusive Development’ Report.

On International Day of Persons with Disabilities we draw from IDMC’s latest research in Nigeria and Colombia to highlight how the negative effects of displacement fall heavily on those with disabilities.

This year, CBM will use this Day to bring attention to avoidable blindness.

Dr. Mchikirwa Msina is one of very few ophthalmologists in Tanzania who can operate on children with cataracts. Day after day, she saves the eyesight of her little patients.

The Asia and Americas Regional Office has launched the Impact Fund, a fund that will support projects with the potential to sustainably scale and improve the lives of persons with disabilities in their communities.

CBM, in partnership with GOAL Honduras and AMHBLI, will support treatment, physiotherapy, and provide medical aids for divers with disabilities.

Strengthening the rights of women with disabilities in Pakistan.

For 20 years, Katharina Pförtner (recently retired CBM Global and Regional Advisor for Latin America) campaigned for inclusion in Latin America on behalf of CBM. She has seen and experienced a lot in the past 20 years – some sad experiences as well as hopeful ones. She is now freshly retired - but boredom is a long way off.

World Braille Day is celebrated annually on January 4. This Day is observed to raise awareness of the importance of Braille as a means of communication in the full realization of the human rights for blind and partially sighted people.

With the support of CBM and partners, health systems in Kenya will be strengthened so that millions can have better access to eye care. More than 8 million people will benefit from this project.

People with disabilities in Espindola, Ecuador, with support from CBM and its local CBID partner, are creating change and improving life for people with and without disabilities.

On International Women's Day 2021, CBM calls for strengthening the potential of women with disabilities. Read the inspiring account of Siata Konaté, who received a training in rice cultivation and now runs a cooperative of 26 rice farmers.

World Children’s Day is celebrated every year on the 20th of November, the day in 1989 when the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. On this Day, we raise awareness, promote and celebrate children’s rights and children welfare, in order to build a better world for them.

CBM commits €2.1 million in humanitarian aid for persons with disabilities in Ukraine and neighbouring countries over the next 12 months.

The ‘Global Perspectives 2020’ conference, co-sponsored by CBM, has just come to an end. This year the theme was ‘A Passion for Inclusion’.

This is a personal account by Paew Rattanamongkol who lives in Thailand. Thanks to CBM partner Daughters of Charity, Paew was part of a project to strengthen the rights of persons with disabilities and is now a community leader assisting people with disabilities and improving their social participation at local community levels.

The International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD), also known as World Disability Day is observed on 3 December each year. This day aims to promote awareness of disability issues and mobilise support for the dignity, rights and inclusion of persons with disabilities.

A day to reaffirm our commitment to promote the rights and well-being of persons with disability living in poor communities. CBM made progress in 2019.

The second Global Disability Summit was a pivotal event that called on governments, businesses, development professionals, and Organisations of People with Disabilities (OPDs) to make binding commitments to change and do more to include over one billion people with disabilities, many of whom live in some of the world’s poorest countries. All regions of the world were represented, and 44 countries made approximately 1,300 commitments by representatives from all stakeholder groups. The summit’s success will be measured by the actions that follow. Three members of the CBM team explain why the summit was so important and the next steps.

CBM is co-sponsoring the ‘Global Perspectives 2020’ conference on inclusion.

A normal day in the life of Dr. Slyvain el-Khoury who, until recently, was the CBM ophthalmologist working at the Kabgayi Clinic in Rwanda.

The ‘Community Based Inclusive Development’ (CBID) Initiative at CBM launched an Innovation Fund in 2021. With this Fund, we want to celebrate and encourage the ingenuity of people we work with and the power of community. This fund provides a space for creative thinking about social innovation with practical impact on the lives of persons with disabilities in their communities.

CBM participated, contributed and presented in a meeting and public workshop as a key member of the Leave No One Behind partnership from 25-28 June in Berlin.

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) are especially important in the elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) like Trachoma which causes blindness. In this interview, Girija Sankar, CBM’s Head of NTD Programmes discusses the importance of water in beating NTDs.

Earlier this year, CBM along with its local partner Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre for Disabled Children (HRDC) organised a mobile health and rehabilitation camp in Nepal.

CBM’s work in Ethiopia has provided 250,000 people with water and informed 1.8 million people on the cause, prevention and treatment of trachoma and the importance of facial cleanliness and environmental sanitation.

Last month, CBM Ethiopia received an official recognition letter from the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (MoLSA) in Ethiopia. This is an act of appreciation for CBM’s contribution to the development of the 2nd UNCRPD Report for Ethiopia, as well as for our leading role in the Disability INGOs Network (DINGO).

Results of a trial published in Lancet Global Health this month could pave the way for significant improvements in treatment for glaucoma in Sub-Saharan Africa.

CBM supports children, women, and men in Kenya with food, water, and school meals.

CBM alongside other international organisations is part of a project that puts persons with disabilities at the centre of humanitarian preparedness and response. With this project we hope to build and strengthen capacity in inclusive humanitarian action and inclusive disaster preparedness through the active inclusion of persons with disabilities.

The CBM supported project in Tanzania- The Kilimanjaro Glaucoma Intervention Programme – is conducting a randomized controlled trial to establish the efficacy in the treatment of glaucoma of laser surgery versus the more traditional use of Timolol eye drops.

An interview with 29-year old Nirmala Puri, who works as a Multi-Skilled Rehabilitation Assistant in the CBM supported ‘Inclusive Development of Children’ (IDC) project, which is being implemented by our partner Hospital and Rehabilitation Center for Disabled Children (HRDC) in Nepal.

By 2050, nearly 2.5 billion people will be living with some degree of hearing loss, at least 700 million of whom will require rehabilitation services. This World Hearing Day – observed every year on March 3rd – CBM is encouraging everyone to check their own ears and take care of their hearing health long term. Diego Santana-Hernández, Senior Ear and Hearing Care Advisor at CBM explains why.

One of the greatest challenges in delivering effective eye care to people who live in low or middle income countries is that those living in more remote communities find it hard to access the care they need. Enter - CBM's partnership with Peek Vision.

Exceptional commitment to inclusion, accessibility, universal design; this is CBM’s Vietnam project which brings home the 2022 Zero Project Award today. The award celebrates CBM’s work in Vietnam which builds disability inclusive and disaster prepared communities.

As part of the partnership between CBM and Peek Vision, a new school eye health programme is underway in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It is the first CBM-Peek programme to launch in the country and is being implemented by our partner ALERT Hospital in collaboration with district health and education authorities.

Christian Blind Mission supports new strategy for eyesight.

As part of CBM’s celebration of World Sight Day - 14th October 2021- and its message on the importance of eye health for everyone, we are launching our Inclusive Eye Health Initiative Annual Report.

This February governments, businesses, development professionals, and Organisations of People with Disabilities come together at the Global Disability Summit to commit to change and do more to include over one billion people with disabilities, many of whom live in some of the world’s poorest countries.

World Sight Day (WSD) is an annual day of awareness and education around blindness and visual impairment. This year it will be celebrated on Thursday 14 October, with the theme ‘Love Your Eyes’.

Where is the last mile? Is it where concrete ends, and dirt begins? Where the buses stop and motos go? Where women walk miles with babes in arms tucked into multi coloured wax cloths? I had the opportunity to reflect on this term that we bandy about in our work in NTD prevention as my colleagues and I bounced through miles of rainwater inundated mud roads in Northern Democratic Republic of Congo.

CBM's annual report on our work to tackle Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) has just been launched during this year’s NTD NGO Conference.

CBM marks World NTD Day - 30th January 2022- Celebrating progress and taking action to #EndtheNeglect and #BeatNTDs

The 12th Annual 'Neglected Tropical Diseases NGO' (NNN) Conference is taking place virtually on 7 - 9 September 2021.

This is the 4th year of the UN International Day of Education, on 24 January. This year the theme is "Changing Course, Transforming Education".

More than 49 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo are at risk from Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). Community Health Workers supported by CBM help to distribute vital treatments every year in some of the hardest to reach communities.

Our project "Phase 2 - Leave no one behind!" promotes the inclusion of persons with disabilities in humanitarian aid. Using the global Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Guidance on the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action, we are working to help humanitarian actors better understand the human rights-based approach to disability in their work.

Every 19 August, we celebrate World Humanitarian Day to honour humanitarian efforts made around the globe and to assert the need for supporting people in crisis. This year, we celebrate our local partner staff Esung Elizabeth Mbende, a humanitarian worker at the frontline of the conflict in Cameroon.

CBM and its partner the University of Cape Town have just published a review of Universal Design Learning (UDL) in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs). With this review we hope to gather evidence to inform the development of capacity-building resources and materials for UDL in LMICs.

On 6 March 2020, Cameroon confirmed its first COVID-19 case. As the virus spread and the number of confirmed cases increased, the government decided to close all schools. More than two months after suspension of classes due to the coronavirus, final year students in primary school and secondary school returned to school in early June 2020.

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has today, 23 July, adopted a Resolution committing the international community to eye care for the 1.1 billion people living with preventable sight loss by 2030.

CBM supports the launch of the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report 2020 on inclusion and education – all means all.

We are launching an Inclusive Education Training Guide to assist with the training of staff within CBM and its partners. It has been prepared with country and regional advisory staff in mind but will have value for project/programme management and other staff too.

CBM Zimbabwe Country Director, Ms. Deborah Tigere bagged two awards in the Directors category following nominations from Institute of Directors Zimbabwe (IODZ).

On 13 June 2020, CBM celebrates International Albinism Awareness Day. Our projects worldwide focus not just on medical assistance, but also on broad education and awareness-raising. Many people affected by albinism are more concerned about the exclusion they experience than the physical ailments. CBM advocates for their inclusion and active participation in all projects, so that they have the same opportunities as everyone else.

Dr. Honorine Nizeyimana received a CBM grant earlier this year and has already started training in Uganda to be an ophthalmologist. In conversation with the 34-year-old doctor from Burundi, she tells us what the job means to her.

The following case study is an extract from our ‘Locked Down but not Locked Out’ study – a reflection of CBM’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to provide support to out community-based partners based around the world.

On the occasion of the World Community Development Conference, CBM is launching its first ever ‘Community Based Inclusive Development’ Report.

From 21-23 June 2021 CBM is participating in the World Community Development Conference (WCDC), a global gathering organised by the International Association for Community Development (IACD) to celebrate and share community development practice and scholarship from different countries. 

Globally, over 130 million people are at risk of trachoma and almost 2 million people are blind or visually impaired due to this bacterial eye infection. Without treatment, trachoma can lead to permanent blindness.

CBM has committed to a process of reflection during the COVID 19 pandemic, drawing from both the lived experiences of people with disabilities and community workers (the PULSE Study), and from a reflection on our own response in support of our community-based partners (Locked Down, Not Locked Out).

A programme for the treatment for lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis has reached parts of South Sudan which have not hitherto benefited from drug interventions.

For 20 years, Katharina Pförtner (recently retired CBM Global and Regional Advisor for Latin America) campaigned for inclusion in Latin America on behalf of CBM. She has seen and experienced a lot in the past 20 years – some sad experiences as well as hopeful ones. She is now freshly retired - but boredom is a long way off.

CBM has been selected by the United Nations (UN) to undertake a comprehensive assessment on the UN’s level of disability inclusion in their systems in Zimbabwe.

CBM staff appointed as the Vice President to the board of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB).

2020 has been declared as the ‘International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife’. Today, more than ever, we are witnessing the vital role played by frontline hospital staff, especially nurses and other hospital workers in providing health care around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nurses are at the forefront of the pandemic response, providing high-quality treatment and care.

A mass drug administration (MDA) to fight trachoma, which is supported by CBM and Sightsavers is due to recommence in May 2021.

Dr. Mchikirwa Msina is one of very few ophthalmologists in Tanzania who can operate on children with cataracts. Day after day, she saves the eyesight of her little patients.

On 7 April 2021, World Health Day will be commemorated globally, under the theme “Together for a fairer, healthier world”. This year we transport you to Uganda, where our partner provides eye care on four wheels.

Since 2018, CBM is working in partnership with the social enterprise organisation Peek Vision Ltd. to carry out visual acuity tests (test to determine whether each eye can see clearly) using a smartphone, thus enabling us to reach people in the most remote regions of CBM project countries.

In 2020, CBM alongside its long-standing partners in India – Sundarban Social Development Centre (SSDC) and The Leprosy Mission Trust India (TLMTI) – conducted a 7-month long humanitarian project from June to December 2020 to provide relief aid for those affected by Cyclone Amphan.

This is a personal account by Paew Rattanamongkol who lives in Thailand. Thanks to CBM partner Daughters of Charity, Paew was part of a project to strengthen the rights of persons with disabilities and is now a community leader assisting people with disabilities and improving their social participation at local community levels.

The MacArthur Foundation today unveiled CBM and coalition partners submitted one of the highest-scoring proposals, designated as the Top 100, in its 100&Change competition for a single $100 million grant to help solve one of the world's most critical social challenges.

CBM in India is part of a core group led by the Indian Government and the University of Melbourne to develop a national competency-based training programme for field workers in Community Based Inclusive Development (CBID).

The World Hearing Day is celebrated annually on 3 March. The aim of this day is to raise global awareness among the general public and policy makers about hearing loss and ear and hearing care (EHC).

On International Women's Day 2021, CBM calls for strengthening the potential of women with disabilities. Read the inspiring account of Siata Konaté, who received a training in rice cultivation and now runs a cooperative of 26 rice farmers.

World Hearing Day is observed annually on 3rd March. For 2021 the theme is “Hearing Care for all: Screen, Rehabilitate, Communicate”.

The Commission Report was published last week and highlights that improving eye health has immediate and substantial benefits.

A normal day in the life of Dr. Slyvain el-Khoury who, until recently, was the CBM ophthalmologist working at the Kabgayi Clinic in Rwanda.

In this article, Devex speaks to CBM Director of Inclusive Eye Health and Neglected Tropical Diseases Dr. Babar Qureshi about how CBM is working with partners to expand access to quality eye care in the 35 countries where we operate.

In this interview, eye health expert Dr. Babar Qureshi explains why Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are often neglected and what can be done to change this.