Read the latest news and stories from CBM Australia’s work helping people with disabilities living in the world’s poorest places.
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A Tested Approach: Community Based Inclusive Development in Indonesia
One of the real game changers for rural people...
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A Story of Hope and Survival for this Father’s Day
For most people across the globe, the past year and a half has been...
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Compelled to Make a Difference
Before I started work with CBM Australia I didn’t realise that there was another level of poverty, which is people with disabilities living in...
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Ensuring that humanitarian responses are inclusive
Indonesia has its fair share of natural hazards, and often it’s people with disabilities...
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World Humanitarian Day: Thursday 19th August 2021
Can you imagine being caught in a cyclone or flash flood without the ability to run to safety or...
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Unequal Pandemic: Intensifying Violence, Abuse and Discrimination
People with disabilities are more likely to experience violence,...
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Unequal Pandemic: Deepening Learning Gaps in Education
The sudden and drastic pivot to remote learning as a result of school closures...
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Unequal pandemic: worsening precarious economic situations
Eighteen months into the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, work practices, businesses and livelihoods are still...
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Unequal pandemic: embedding unequal access to health services
In times of disaster events and crises, people with disabilities are often the hardest...
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Unequal Pandemic: Driving Food Insecurity
People who are already on the margins of society in many ways, including people with disabilities, have been further...
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CBM Australia Joins Historic Disaster Relief Alliance
CBM, Australia’s leading disability inclusive development organisation, joined 16 Australian charities to launch the...
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Help, When it Seems There is No Hope From Anywhere
Life was already tough for Sher (pictured) before COVID-19 took away his ability to...
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CBM supports Dala and other at-risk people in Nepal during Covid-19
Covid-19 has had a terrible impact on people living...
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Covid-19 response: CBM provides essential food in Nepal
It was a cold morning, the first chill of winter making itself known by...
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Hunger is gripping madagascar
Like many countries around the world, the island of Madagascar off the coast of East Africa has been hit hard by COVID-19. Tragically, the...
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Heart to help: CBM Supporter Ant Van Hewsden’s Miracle story
Despite a difficult start in life, and issues with...
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CBM in Nepal: Covid-19 hits hard
Although Covid-19 infection rates in Nepal are on the decline after an all-time high in May, the negative impact on people’s mental health and...
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Salman’s Miracle
This Miracles Day, August 19, can you give the Miracle of sight to change the life of a child like Salman? Just $33 will provide sight-saving surgery
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Improved disability inclusion in South Sudan
Decades of conflict in South Sudan, poverty and poor access to essential services have increased the rate of disability,...
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“A little warrior who never gave up” – Lino walks again
Having access to proper medical care has prevented permanent...