Read the latest news and stories from CBM Australia’s work helping people with disabilities living in the world’s poorest places.
What Organisations of People with Disabilities (OPDs) value about our advocacy work
Working closely with local organisations of people with disabilities...
Working Together: Patrick and Lidel
Each month, CBM Australia takes a look behind the scenes at our employees who are devoted to improving the lives of people with disabilities...
How we applied human-centred design to refresh Luke14
For over 10 years, CBM Australia’s Luke14 program has helped churches and Christian communities...
Time to end obstetric fistula
Obstetric fistula is a health condition affecting between 50,000 and 100,000 women worldwide each year. Although largely preventable, it often has life threatening consequences for...
After seven years of obstetric fistula, Halimat is finally free
Across Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, it is estimated that more than 2 million women...
Celebrating Mother’s Day: Lucy’s Story
Around the world, parents are united through their unconditional love for their children and their willingness to go above...
Glenys Sigley reflects on 18 years as a CBM Ambassador
Glenys Sigley is CBM’s Eternal Giving Club Ambassador. The Club is part of our...
Disaster preparedness in the Pacific story series
The Pacific is hit with several disasters every year including cyclones, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis. These island nations...
AHP Disaster Ready helping people with disabilities in Fiji
CBM Australia, through the Australian Humanitarian Partnership (AHP) Pacific Disaster READY program, is supporting several...
Disability and planning for disaster in the Solomon Islands: Jabis’s story
While these days he lives in the capital city,...
Disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction in the Solomon Islands: Ellena’s story
The word “tropical” often conjures images of sunny skies...
Moses finds the mental health support he needs
When the CBM-supported Comprehensive Community Mental Health Program (CCMHP) came to Moses Nigerian village, the results were life-changing.
Chief Harun – a father who moves from shame to mental health advocate
How CBM's Comprehensive Community Mental Health Program helped a...
Demesugh challenges the stigma around mental health
Nigerian man overcomes a psychosocial disability to become a local Self-Help Group secretary and...
Big changes in attitudes and approaches: mental health in Nigeria
200 million people living in Nigeria. Only 250 are...
A new life for two families in Nepal
People with disabilities and their families living in poverty face many challenges just to survive. From finding the right health care to paying for...
A new life for two families in Nepal – the Majhi family
People with disabilities and their families living in poverty face many challenges just to...
CBM partners with women leaders to create movement of change for disability
If you’ve got evidence, it is the springboard for...
Funding cuts for people with disabilities sustained for third year in a row
The Federal Government has dealt another cruel blow to...
CBM calls for a permanent increase in global disability-inclusive development funding
CBM Australia is calling on the Australian Government to...