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A few weeks ago, I was privileged to have the opportunity to travel to Tanzania to visit some of the projects CBM supporters are helping make possible – and to witness the gift of sight being restored and to see how this gave new life to people liv...

Today, 8th March, is International Women’s Day, an opportunity to celebrate women’s achievements in all spheres of life and celebrate the huge progress that has been made towards gender equality. But we also need to highlight the considerable wor...

Ned Carter is a Programme Manager at CBM UK supporting the new Ear and Hearing Care Scottish Government-funded project in Zambia. He is also an audiologist and previously worked in Cambodia for an Ear and Hearing Care non-governmental organisation. W...

David Rootham is the Senior Legacy Officer at CBM UK. A message from Zimbabwe As I sat in Harare airport the week before the coup, my thoughts wandered back to the people I had met the previous week. Nothing could have quite prepared me for what I he...

Globally, one billion people have a disability, and 80 per cent live in developing countries. In developing countries, women comprise three quarters of people with disabilities. Women and girls with disabilities are disproportionately represented and...

David Lewis, CBM Focal Point for Environmental Sustainability, and Kirsty Smith, Chief Executive of CBM UK, on an important opportunity to promote environmental sustainability in the eye-health sector amid a month of climate disaster. The need for gl...

On World Clubfoot Day, Steve Mannion, CBM’s Orthopaedic Advisor highlights the impact of clubfoot on children’s lives and why the new Global Strategy to End Clubfoot Disability launched today is so important. Congenital talipes equino-varus, or ...

Kirsty Smith, Chief Executive of CBM UK, on meeting people with disabilities affected by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti, and the need to include them in disaster response. In the hills of southern Haiti, the destruction caused by Hurricane Matthew in Oc...

Anne Wafula-Strike, CBM Champion and Paralympic wheelchair racer, grew up in Kenya. Aged two, she contracted polio, which left her unable to walk. “When I was growing up in Kenya, my parents were told to feed me poison, abandon me and leave me to ...

Born to missionary parents from Northern Ireland, Bill McAllister joined CBM International in 1994, working in Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo. He was asked to set up CBM UK in 1996,  becoming its first Director until 2012.  Here he desc...