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Sarah's Story: Too young to say Thank You
Sarah's Story
She's too young to say thank you, but you've given her the chance to see. When Sarah was three weeks old, her mother Maurice took her to visit another young mum. Comparing their two babies closely, Maurice noticed that something was different about...
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Naneo's story: Every child should bring home an A
Naneo's Story
Through support like yours, CBM distributed 350,884 sight-saving vitamin A capsules in just one year. Naneo with a Vitamin A capsule.Photo: CBM
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Sadday's Story
Sadday's story
Sadday: Freed from Retinopathy For children like Sadday, your support for CBM can help to prevent disability. Sadday having her eyes checked on a yearly follow-up. Photo: CBM Four year old Sadday lives in Arequipa, Peru, where premature babies may...
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Juned's Story - Help and hope for a young survivor
Juned Alam. Photo: CBM
Once threatened with amputation, Juned is now able to play sports with his friends. Juned Alam is only four years old, but his legs showed signs of clubfoot at birth. His mother Reshraf remembers the devastating diagnosis. "The doctor told me that...
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A harvest of learning - Rigat's Story
Rigat Adomer, a teenager who has received rehabilitation from CBM. Photo: CBM
Through the RAPID (Rehabilitation and Prevention Initiative against Disability) project in Adama, Ethiopia, the future is growing brighter for teens with disabilities. Rigat (right) with her father, who had taken the day off work to help her pick...
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Mwajuma: catching sight of a better life
Mwajuma smiling after surgery. Photo: CBM
For young adults like Mwajuma, your support for CBM helps break the link between disability and poverty. When Mwajuma went blind, her friends laughed. "They would call me names," she painfully remembers. "They would call after me, 'Blind girl, blind...
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Shahnawaz
Shahnawaz sitting on his bed. Photo: CBM
Repairing clubfoot gives a young boy like Shahnawaz access to education, more profitable work and a brighter future. "They took my money, but no doctor saw my son," says Fahmiba Rabbani, who asked at the hospital why the feet of her newborn son were...
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Kaipasake
Kaipasake after rehabilitation. Photo: CBM
Kaipasake was chained to a tree when he was found by a fieldworker from a CBM-supported project in Papua New Guinea.  Kaipasake was emaciated, deaf, blind and showing signs of being abused when he was found chained to a tree. Photo: CBM
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Washline's Journey
A young Haitian girl with crutches. Photo: CBM
Washline Jorcine has come an incredible way since being caught in the rubble left by the devastating earthquake that hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti in January 2010. Washline is 9 years old and lives in Port-au-Prince. She was trapped in the rubble left...
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Joyce Kaaya
Joyce Kaaya after surgery. Photo: CBM/argum/Einberger
After nine months of failing sight, Joyce Kaaya had become completely reliant on her family. Thankfully, CBM was able to give her independence back through a life-changing cataract operation. Joyce at home before her operation. Photo: CBM/argum/...
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