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New Eye Glasses Give Twins From the Philippines Hope For a Brighter Future.
New Eye Glasses Give Twins From the Philippines Hope...

The Return of Hope for Ibu Suhairi After Being Free From Cataracts
The Return of Hope for Ibu Suhairi After Being...

CBM’s Inclusion Advisory Group Helping Women and Infants Access Life-Saving Health Services in Timor-Leste
CBM’s Inclusion Advisory Group Helping Women and Infants Access...

CBM’s Inclusion Advisory Group Helps to Promote Disability Inclusion Across Multi-Sectoral Aid Program in Timor-Leste
CBM’s Inclusion Advisory Group Helps to Promote Disability Inclusion...

How CBM’s Advisory Work in Papua New Guinea is Influencing Faith Based Aid Programs and Churches
How CBM’s Advisory Work in Papua New Guinea is...

Improving Access to Education for Children with Disability Through CBM’s Advisory Work
Improving Access to Education for Children with Disability Through...

Improving the Lives of People With Disabilities Through Influencing the Legal Framework in Papua New Guinea
Improving the Lives of People With Disabilities Through Influencing...

Disability group sets up COVID-19 helpline
In many cities across India, NGOs and state government agencies initiated services for households affected by the COVID-19 pandemic....

COVID crisis in India: supporting the most vulnerable
“The second wave of COVID-19 has a devastating impact, claiming lives in the community....

Evaluation Confirms CBM Work Effective in Supporting Neglected Tropical Diseases Eradication
Evaluation confirms CBM work effective in supporting Neglected Tropical...

Seeing the Future: Improving Eyesight in Refugee Camps
Seeing the future – improving eyesight in refugee camps Kabir is a Rohingya man living...

Help Her See. Help Her Succeed: Allen’s Story
First Allen’s eyes started itching, then they reddened, and them the pain became unbearable… “I...

Help her see. Help her succeed: Minu’s story
Minu had never been outside the confines of her small village in one of...

Help Her See. Help Her Succeed: Shalom’s Story
Little Shalom sits on the veranda and listens to the sounds of other children...

How We’ve Worked Together Over the Years with Pacific Disability Forum
How we’ve worked together over the years with Pacific...

Disability aid budget stagnates while COVID-19 rampages
Leading disability-inclusive international development agency, CBM Australia is appalled that the Federal Government has...

Anne’s COVID-19 Reflection: Celebrating our volunteers
Anne Verwoert has volunteered at CBM for over 25 years at both the Kew...

Celebrating our Volunteers – National Volunteers Week 2021
For Ellen Lew, the most satisfying thing about volunteering with CBM is seeing how...

International Day to End Obstetric Fistula
Obstetric fistula is a health condition that has life-threatening consequences for women in some of the poorest countries in...

Climate change will lead to increased eye disease
Organisations whose mission is to improve eye health and prevent blindness across the world need to be at the...