When you give to CBM UK, your support does more than meet immediate needs – it creates lasting change for people living with disabilities in some of the world’s poorest places.
Here are 10 powerful ways your donation is transforming lives for the long term:
1. Restoring sight through cataract surgery
Cataracts are the leading cause of blindness worldwide – but they’re treatable with a simple, low-cost operation.
Your donation helps train local surgeons, equip eye hospitals, and fund sight-restoring surgery that changes lives in 20 minutes.
“I feel like I’ve been given another life. I may be ageing, but with my sight back, I can live a normal life.” – Dorothy, Malawi.
2. Supporting people with disabilities to earn a living
Your gift helps people with disabilities gain skills, start small businesses, or access employment, breaking the cycle of poverty and disability.
FACT: Livelihood support empowers families for generations to come.
3. Strengthening local health systems
You help us work with local partners to improve health services – from training doctors and nurses to equipping rural clinics – so communities can thrive with long-term, accessible care.
Every clinic strengthened means hundreds more people are helped each year.
4. Training healthcare workers
Your donation trains doctors, nurses, and community health workers to identify and treat conditions like cataracts, trachoma, or clubfoot. This builds local capacity that lasts for decades.
A trained eye nurse can help prevent blindness for thousands of patients.
5. Preventing childhood disability
By supporting maternal healthcare, nutrition, and early screening, your donation helps prevent disabilities before they happen, giving children a healthier start in life.
Vitamin A supplements alone can reduce child blindness by up to 70%.
6. Helping children with disabilities go to school
You help make education inclusive by training teachers, providing mobility aids, and making classrooms accessible. This gives children the tools to learn, grow, and thrive.
FACT: Children with disabilities are more than twice as likely to be out of school.
7. Championing disability rights
Your donation helps amplify the voices of people with disabilities through advocacy and community inclusion programmes, creating systemic change at local and national levels.
“We are human beings created by God, just like everyone else. We have rights and we are all equal.” – Evans, Disability Advocate, Kenya.
8. Preventing disease in remote communities
Through clean water projects, hygiene training, and mass drug administration, your support helps prevent neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) like trachoma and river blindness – some of the world’s leading causes of preventable disability.
FACT: River blindness can be eliminated entirely with sustained support.
9. Responding to emergencies
In times of crisis, people with disabilities are often left behind. Your donation helps ensure emergency response includes accessible shelters, mobility aids, and medical care – with long-term rehabilitation built in.
10. Breaking the cycle of poverty and disability
Disability and poverty go hand in hand – but with your support, we tackle both at the same time. From medical care to education to economic empowerment, your donation supports a holistic, sustainable approach.
One donation. Lifelong impact.
Your impact is long-term
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