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One of my personal highlights from late last year was meeting Annie Medzhagopian Abu Hanna, Executive Director of CBM partner Al-Hussein Society in Jordan. While on a visit to the UK, she came to our office in Cambridge to update us on their work. It...

For the past few weeks we’ve been sharing regular live updates with our supporters about 8 year-old Whitney from Uganda on her journey from blindness to sight. This little girl had been blind for 4 years but thanks to CBM supporters she can see aga...

Matthew Hanning is CBM’s country representative for Indonesia. He lives there with his wife Aline, who trains teachers of children who are deafblind in the South-East Asia region. In this blog, Matthew talks about his working life with CBM, from vo...

My job in the Communications team at CBM means that most days I encounter moving stories of our work. Some are heart-warming tales of obstacles overcome or life-changing medical treatment. Others leave me feeling desperately sad – lives blighted by...

CBM champion and Paralympian, Anne Olympia Wafula was born in a small village called Mihuu in Western Kenya. She was a strong child that lived up to her powerful middle name but at just two-years-old, she was struck down by polio and left paralysed f...

I wake early on my third day at CBM supported Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC). I am leaving this evening but have a day full of meetings and visiting, starting with a visit to the ward where 2 year old Sheldon has spent the night. The nur...

My second day at CBM supported Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) starts early. It is cool and cloudy as I head upstairs to the operating floor, where I put on my surgical gown, hat and mask and make my way in to the theatre to join paediatr...

Here is my first blog from Tanzania, as I travel to CBM supported Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) to witness two children regain their sight following cataract surgery. Its 8am on a chilly morning in northern Tanzania and Mount Kilimanjar...

Kirsty Smith is Chief Executive of CBM UK.  One month ago, the UK voted to leave the EU.  For some, this decision is a cause for celebration; for others a devastating blow.  Whatever your personal perspective, it’s clear that this is a time of ...

CBM Ambassador Anne Wafula Strike gives a personal response to Worst Place to be Disabled? (BBC Website – open link in new tab), a documentary about disability in Ghana shown as part of BBC3’s recent Defying the Label season. I sat with m...