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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 ...

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€...

The Rt Hon. the Lord Blunkett, on creating opportunities for people with disabilities and encouraging other organisations to do the same. “In recent decades, we’ve made great strides in tackling global poverty. Thanks to concerted global action t...

Mental health conditions are a leading cause of disability, yet CBM is one of very few development organisations prioritising them. Philip Ode, the Project Coordinator at the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Programme (CCMHP) for Benue State, Ni...

After joining CBM as a general medical officer in a mission hospital in Tanzania in 1975, Allen Foster went on to become CBM’s International President from 2006-2013. He is now Professor of International Eye Health at the London School of Hygie...

Jimmy Moore belongs to a family who has given tirelessly to support CBM programmes. Recently, his father left a gift in his Will to the work of CBM UK. Jimmy speaks about his father’s legacy: “My father wanted his legacy to be used where the nee...

Rosi Jack, Communications Manager for CBM UK, reports back on a recent visit to Uganda, where she met the team reaching the last cases of people suffering from trachoma in their area. In Namutumba District, eastern Uganda, people no longer live with...