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In our last blog, we shared some stories from people in Nepal who’ve benefitted from your life-changing donations to our Coronavirus Emergency Appeal. During COVID-19, your support has enabled us to reach out to protect the world’s most vulnerabl...

Zimbabwe is facing a desperate food crisis, with the UN’s World Food Programme warning in July that 60% of the country’s population could be facing hunger by the end of the year. A combination of drought, economic crisis and Coronavirus has led t...

Many people with disabilities in Nepal have been facing huge challenges as a result of Coronavirus and the lockdown to curb its spread. CBM is working with our partners to ensure that the most at-risk households get the support they need. In this blo...

When Coronavirus started to spread in Cameroon many schools including CBM partner Promhanidcam, an inclusive school for students with disabilities, had to close. The school has 316 students, of whom 177 are children with disabilities. Learning resour...

In Rwanda, people with disabilities make up 5% of the population and are amongst the poorest, often finding it difficult to access employment or banking services. Our programme in Rwanda, supported by the Scottish Government’s International Dev...

The measures to tackle the spread of Covid-19 pandemic are exacerbating existing gender and disability-based inequalities. In this blog, our Chief Executive Kirsty Smith outlines the additional challenges being faced by women and girls with disabilit...

CBM Global was pleased to support an important and powerful report by the Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities for Sustainable Development: The Experience of Persons with Disabilities with COVID-19 Report (open in new tab). Twenty-eight peo...

Too often, people with disabilities are unseen and unheard in their societies – and with measures in place to prevent the spread of Coronavirus leaving many isolated at home, there is a risk that this marginalisation will be compounded. At tim...

People with disabilities living in the Global South are amongst the most marginalised across the world, but a number of strides in the right direction by the UK government in recent years have boosted efforts to ensure that no one is left behind – ...

Today we are joining with people around the world to celebrate International Albinism Awareness Day. This is an important opportunity to remember the progress that has been made fighting for the rights of people with albinism and to continue to raise...