cbm envisions an inclusive world in which all people with disabilities enjoy their human rights and achieve their full potential.
By partnering with cbm, you can directly help adults and children with disabilities in the world’s poorest places. Your impact will be amplified through cbm‘s proven partner networks, creating a ripple effect that extends far beyond what is possible on its own. cbm partnerships exist at both the grassroots and strategic levels, acting as a catalyst for immediate and lasting change.
cbm works alongside people with disabilities in the world’s poorest communities to fight poverty and exclusion and transform lives. With over 100 years of experience, and driven by its Christian values, cbm works with the most marginalised in society to break the cycle of poverty and disability, treat and prevent conditions that lead to disability, and build inclusive communities where everyone can enjoy their human rights and achieve their full potential.
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cbm (Christian Blind Mission) was founded by German Pastor Ernst Jakob Christoffel in Turkey in 1908. His pioneering work-establishing homes for blind children, orphans, and the physically disabled in the Middle East and Asia-was deeply inspired by his unwavering faith in God. Despite the devastation of two world wars and the trials of illness and old age, he never gave up. Today, cbm continues in his footsteps, working as an international Christian development organisation to improve the quality of life for the world’s poorest persons with disabilities.
cbm New Zealand currently serves in 14 countries across Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Beyond inclusive eye health programmes, cbm also focus on humanitarian responses, inclusive education, inclusive livelihoods, community and physical rehabilitation, disaster preparedness, and organisational strengthening. In places like Nigeria, cbm works to eradicate neglected tropical diseases and support women suffering from obstetric fistula.
Going needlessly blind, Kyle’s dreams were slipping away
When you were a child, what did you dream of doing when you grew up?
7-year-old Kyle from the Philippines said, “I want to play basketball.”
But his dreams were slipping away… because he was going needlessly blind from cataracts.
