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The new Secretary of State for International Development, Penny Mordaunt, has vowed to “put disability at the heart of DFID” and announced that the UK will host a major Global Disability Summit in July 2018.

International Day of People with Disabilities (IDPD) is coming up on 3rd December. Find out how we will be celebrating!

The North of England Ophthalmological Society (NEOS) has committed to support people who are blind or living with disabilities in the world’s poorest places, choosing CBM as their Charity of the Year for 2017-18.

Former Home Secretary Lord Blunkett hosted a reception on behalf of CBM at which he highlighted the challenges faced by disabled people in developing countries and urged more action to address mental health in the world’s poorest places.

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.