This year’s World Mental Health Day comes at a time when our daily lives have changed considerably as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The past months have brought many challenges: for health-care workers, providing care in difficult circumstances, going to work fearful of bringing COVID-19 home with them;for students, adapting to taking classes from […]
International Week of the Deaf and NZ Sign Language Week are celebrated annually, during 21-27 September, through various activities and events by Deaf Communities worldwide and the aim is to promote human rights for deaf people, and to provide a platform for them to tell their stories and have their voices heard. In recognition, here […]
Our Child Sponsors can take great joy in the wonderful things they are doing for children like Fatuma. A remarkable new video has just arrived from Uganda. Fatuma is now able to see her Grandmother’s loving smile for the first time in her life! As Fatuma’s vision continues to improve she will be fitted with […]
Our partners and staff in the refugee camps of Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh, show selfless commitment during the COVID-19 pandemic by ensuring that persons with disabilities continue receiving inclusive humanitarian services. Every 19 August, we celebrate World Humanitarian Day to honour humanitarian efforts made around the globe and to assert the need for supporting people in […]
While acknowledging World Humanitarian Day for the 11th year, we pay special tribute to the real-life heroes who have committed their lives to helping others in the most extreme circumstances around the world. This year World Humanitarian Day comes as the world continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Humanitarian workers are overcoming unprecedented access hurdles […]
COVID-19 will impact poor children and see poverty return to historic levels. Thirteen NZ aid organisations, including cbm are warning that children in low-income countries will be the most affected by the global pandemic and we are encouraging Kiwis to help resource their global neighbours to deal effectively with the pandemic. The release today of “The State […]
12-year-old Naomi, from the Manawatu, has decided she has enough money in the bank, and is now donating her hard-earned pocket money to disadvantaged children like Fatuma in Uganda. Twice a week Naomi’s mum Susan and one of her three daughters, trek next door to clean the Levin golf course. Naomi, 12, Hannah, 10, and […]
A message from our Board Chair, Susan Willis-Hirst As I write this, our world is surrounded with uncertainty and fear. One thing we are certain of is that the people cbm serves around the globe need our help more than ever. Those who live in poverty with a disability are profoundly vulnerable to infectious diseases, and the […]
On Saturday 23 May we honoured women like Victoria, who are living with Obstetric Fistula. Young women like Victoria, who at just 22-years-old, had lost five babies in five years to miscarriage and stillbirth. If that wasn’t enough, after the traumatic birth of her fifth baby, she suffered from obstetric fistula. She was then abandoned […]
‘Glam Up & Give’ is a global social media movement launched on Friday 8 May and since then a number of counties including the UK, Australia, New Zealand have joined with the USA, India, Asia and Europe set to follow. So, cbm NZ has joined with 10 well-known charities in New Zealand who are each working hard […]
While acknowledging World Humanitarian Day for the 11th year, we pay special tribute to the real-life heroes who have committed their lives to helping others in the most extreme circumstances around the world. This year World Humanitarian Day comes as the world continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Humanitarian workers are overcoming unprecedented access hurdles […] 
COVID-19 will impact poor children and see poverty return to historic levels. Thirteen NZ aid organisations, including cbm are warning that children in low-income countries will be the most affected by the global pandemic and we are encouraging Kiwis to help resource their global neighbours to deal effectively with the pandemic. The release today of “The State […] 
12-year-old Naomi, from the Manawatu, has decided she has enough money in the bank, and is now donating her hard-earned pocket money to disadvantaged children like Fatuma in Uganda. Twice a week Naomi’s mum Susan and one of her three daughters, trek next door to clean the Levin golf course. Naomi, 12, Hannah, 10, and […] 
A message from our Board Chair, Susan Willis-Hirst As I write this, our world is surrounded with uncertainty and fear. One thing we are certain of is that the people cbm serves around the globe need our help more than ever. Those who live in poverty with a disability are profoundly vulnerable to infectious diseases, and the […] 
On Saturday 23 May we honoured women like Victoria, who are living with Obstetric Fistula. Young women like Victoria, who at just 22-years-old, had lost five babies in five years to miscarriage and stillbirth. If that wasn’t enough, after the traumatic birth of her fifth baby, she suffered from obstetric fistula. She was then abandoned […] 
‘Glam Up & Give’ is a global social media movement launched on Friday 8 May and since then a number of counties including the UK, Australia, New Zealand have joined with the USA, India, Asia and Europe set to follow. So, cbm NZ has joined with 10 well-known charities in New Zealand who are each working hard […] 