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Today, Prime Minister Theresa May, has awarded CBM UK’s Dr Andy Pyott with a Points of Light award for his incredible efforts to support the world’s forgotten people.

Rohingya refugees, who fled violence in Myanmar to seek safety in Bangladesh face a new threat as the monsoon season brings heavy rains, leading to dangerous landslides and flash floods.

CBM is inviting churches to take part in Christian Blind Mission Sunday on 14th October 2018, helping prevent childhood blindness and restore sight in the world’s poorest places.

On 24th July, a Global Disability Summit will take place in London, co-hosted by the UK Government, the Government of Kenya and the International Disability Alliance. Around the world, CBM partners have been contributing to preparations.

Four new Vision Centres will provide sight-saving eye health services to people in one of the poorest parts of India, thanks to support from L’Occitane Foundation, the foundation run by natural beauty products company L’Occitane.

CBM welcomes International Development Committee report urging the Government not to widen the definition of Official Development Assistance, but to maintain focus on using UK Aid to help the world’s poorest and most excluded people.

Television presenter Diane Louise Jordan has added her voice to CBM’s new Save Sight campaign to prevent childhood blindness across some of the world’s poorest places.

In May 2018, CBM won the International SOS Foundation Duty of Care Award in Chicago, USA. The awards recognise outstanding achievements in meeting high standards of health, safety and security at work. It honours organisations…

To mark International Day to End Obstetric Fistula, actress Dame Penelope Wilton has spoken out about the need to tackle obstetric fistula and expressed her support for CBM’s work treating women with the condition.

An art exhibition and choir concert at St Barnabas Church on Mill Road, in Cambridge, will raise vital funds to help women living with the debilitating condition obstetric fistula.