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From the large-scale to the light-hearted, CBM activities around the world on World Sight Day (12 October) celebrated the gift of sight and drew attention to the need to combat avoidable blindness.

CBM’s Sight for Whitney campaign has been shortlisted for Premier Digital Awards’ Best Online Campaign. The online campaign enabled supporters in the UK to walk with 8 year-old Whitney on her life-changing journey from blindness to sight.

In an exciting new partnership, CBM is joining with Peek Vision to introduce new technologies that will make eye treatment more accessible in even the remotest areas of developing countries.

To mark World Sight Day, the latest global data and trends on blindness and vision impairment have been brought together in one place to help CBM and other international organisations address the most urgent eye health issues ahead.

A new CBM training course in Pakistan will help eye-health professionals include people with disabilities and marginalised groups.

A year on from Hurricane Matthew, the category 4 storm that devastated large parts of the Caribbean, we look back on how the generosity of CBM supporters has helped rebuild lives and livelihoods in Haiti and Cuba.

More than a month after the mudslides in Sierra Leone, CBM is helping people with disabilities access supplies and rebuild their lives.

CBM UK will be launching two new life-changing projects in Rwanda and Zambia, thanks to the Scottish Government’s International Development Fund.  

Congratulations to Dr Redentor Rabino from the Philippines and Professor Dr Asad Aslam Khan from Pakistan, who have been honoured as “Eye Health Heroes” by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB).

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