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In the past year, 52 young people with albinism (aged 18-35) have been supported to access eye health services and employment thanks to a project in partnership with the Zimbabwe Albino Association (ZIMAS).   In Zimbabwe, people with albinism routi...

Agnes (40) has created a successful business rearing and selling chickens, thanks to business skills training through her local Village Savings and Loans Association. As a person with a physical disability, and the sole breadwinner for her family, li...

Today is International Day to End Obstetric Fistula and we’re celebrating the amazing community champions, who are drawing on their own experience of fistula to help other women and challenge stigma around this debilitating condition. Justina, 18, ...

Junior and Grace are best friends. They go to school together but they also have another thing in common. Both have been struggling with poor vision for several years, making it much more difficult for them to learn in class. But thanks to CBM suppor...

People with disabilities often struggle to support themselves and their families in Rwanda due to lack of training and education opportunities but also difficulties in accessing financial support such as loans. In partnership with the National Union ...

Ned Carter is a Programme Manager at CBM UK and managed the Time to Change Global programme. Over the last 15 years CBM and partners have been tackling stigma and discrimination in mental health, and contributing to the global evidence base. Why is t...

Dr Ute Dibb is an eye surgeon at CBM’s partner hospital, Norton Eye Unit, in Zimbabwe. She has previously worked with CBM partners in Nepal, Rwanda and Malawi. In this interview, she talks about the current challenges people in Zimbabwe are facing ...

Too often, people living in poverty with mental illness are seen as broken, cursed or somehow less than human. And misunderstanding, stigma and exclusion pulls whole families deeper into poverty. One example of such stigma is in Ghana, West Africa, w...

David Taylor is Head of Partnerships and Philanthropy at CBM UK. He travelled to Zimbabwe in 2018, to see CBM’s sight-saving work first hand – and there he met an amazing woman called Violet. This is the story of their encounter. Violet’s s...

Published for Zero Discrimination Day 1st March 2021 by Theresa Baird & Kirsty Smith CBM UK / CBM Global and Anouk Gouvras, with operational report contribution by Janette Abing-Taga-an CBM Australia. People with disabilities make up 15% of the g...