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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...

After working as an eye specialist in Nigeria and Pakistan, Dr Babar Qureshi joined CBM in 1997.  He is now CBM’s International Director for Inclusive Eye Health. From bringing about an eye health revolution in Pakistan to tackling emerging challe...

Shortage of medical specialists means that many people with disabilities, or at risk of disability, can’t access vital treatment. Dr Leonard Banza, an orthopaedic surgeon, whose training was sponsored by CBM, describes how his work changes the ...

Gill is one of CBM UK’s most long serving and active volunteers, working tirelessly and with passion to raise funds and awareness since 2006. “We moved to Cambridge when my husband Peter retired. Being only 43 and a half, I wasn’t quite ready f...

Irene Ojiugo is Executive Director of the CBM partner Disability Rights Advocacy Centre (DRAC) in Nigeria. She explains how women with disabilities face double discrimination  – as a result both of their gender and disability – and introduces a ...

Jan Flawn, Chair of Trustees, CBM UK on bringing expertise to transform the lives of people with disabilities. “Since CBM UK was founded in 1996, UK supporters, medical & disability experts, staff and volunteers have all played a vital role in ...

Kirsty Smith, CEO of CBM UK on twenty-one years of transforming the lives of people with disabilities and CBM’s ongoing determination to challenge injustice.  “21 years ago, CBM UK was set up to inspire people in the UK to be part of CBMâ€...