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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 Programmes Officer 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. ...

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...

Theresa Baird has been working with CBM UK as a volunteer research intern for the last two years while she studies for the Advanced Diploma in International Development at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education. She is particul...

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...

3rd December is International Day of People with Disabilities, when we focus on the contribution that men, women, girls and boys with disabilities make to their families, communities and societies – and highlight the benefits for everyone of great...

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...