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World Braille Day – training community educators to include girls with visual impairment
Tuesday, 4th January, 2022Find out moreWorld Braille Day takes place on the 4th January every year to raise awareness about the importance of braille as a means of communication for blind and visually impaired people.
International Day for Persons with Disabilities: Let’s build back a better world for all
Friday, 3rd December, 2021Find out moreToday, on International Day of People with Disabilities, as the world prepares to recover, vaccinate, and build back better, CBM UK and our partners seek to ensure the world we build is a better world for all.
The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2021
Tuesday, 30th November, 2021Find out moreToday, on Giving Tuesday, we’re launching our Big Give Christmas Challenge, to free women in Nigeria from devastating fistula. For one week only, from 30th November-7th December, your donations will be DOUBLED…
Disability-inclusive Climate Action: How can we do better after COP26?
Thursday, 25th November, 2021Find out moreCBM UK will be joining a group of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) on Monday 29th November looking at how best to ensure that people with disabilities are meaningfully included in climate change adaptation.
Diane Louise Jordan supports Christmas Miracles campaign
Monday, 15th November, 2021Find out moreBroadcaster Diane Louise Jordan, well-known for presenting iconic TV shows Songs of Praise and Blue Peter, has voiced her support for CBM’s Christmas Miracles campaign, which aims to give the Miracle gift of sight…
Watch our #COP26 event: An Inclusive Planet
Tuesday, 9th November, 2021Find out moreOn Friday 5th November, CBM UK hosted a side-event at COP26, focussing on the impacts of climate change on people with disabilities and how climate adaptation and resilience measures can be more inclusive…
“What’s Climate Change got to do with disability”: CBM’s Mary Keogh on BBC Ouch podcast
Wednesday, 3rd November, 2021Find out more“People with disabilities have a role to be caretakers of the world and have the skills to do that” Dr Mary Keogh, Advocacy Director at CBM Global, tells BBC Ouch.
Thank you for providing life-saving support to families in Madagascar
Thursday, 28th October, 2021Find out moreYour generous gifts are providing a lifeline to 1100 families in Southern Madagascar.
#COP26: Promoting inclusive climate action
Tuesday, 26th October, 2021Find out moreCBM UK and CBM Global will be joining Disability Movement and civil society partners at #COP26, the UN climate conference in Glasgow, to ensure that disability inclusion is not overlooked.
World Sight Day garden party raises vital funds to prevent blindness
Monday, 25th October, 2021Find out moreTo mark World Sight Day (14th October), Cambridge-based CBM volunteers Gill and Peter Godber held a garden party, raising vital funds to prevent blindness in the world’s poorest places.