A TIME OF PRAYER

As the days have rolled into weeks in lockdown, I hope you and your loved ones are well. It is of great comfort to know the plan to fight COVID-19 seems to be working, and next week we will move to level 3. Although our daily lives may not change that much under level 3, […]

TROPICAL CYCLONE HAROLD

Our Pacific neighbours in the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji and Tonga are facing a double emergency – the destruction of Category 5 tropical cyclone Harold and the spread of COVID-19. Tropical cyclone Harold has been moving through the Pacific delivering heavy rain and 185-205km/hr winds, causing widespread damage to houses and infrastructure across the affected […]

ROHINGYA REFUGEE UPDATE

As we enter into our second week of lockdown, our new normal, I pray you are safe and well. While there are many new challenges to our daily routines due to COVID-19, I am very grateful that much of cbm’s work overseas is medical. Thankfully we are still able to continue serving those living in poverty with […]

TO OUR CBM FAMILY

A few short weeks ago, I never thought I would be writing a message to you like this one. Yet as we all unite to fight against COVID-19, I felt it important I update you on our work overseas and changes to our administrative procedures, as a result of the closure of our physical office […]

Women’s Day

On International Women’s Day 2020, cbm calls for equal opportunities for girls and women with disabilities, like 30-year old Rita from Cameroon. Every time Rita stands in front of a class, she begins with her own story: “Once upon a time there was a girl who was sick and should have been left in the […]

World Hearing Day

Many of the causes that lead to hearing loss are preventable. Particularly in children, in whom 60% of hearing loss can be prevented through public health strategies. Some interventions can be as straight forward as a timely treatment prescribed for an Acute Otitis Media. This is a painful infection of the middle ear, majorly in […]

World NTD Day

cbm celebrated World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day for the first time in January. cbm joined more than 250 partners around the world in the fight to eliminate NTDs and has been successfully involved in the prevention of blindness from onchocerciasis and trachoma for more than 20 years. In 2018, with support from our partners and donors, […]

Introducing Fatuma

Abandoned at birth by her mother and father, Fatuma was left in the care of Gertrude, her maternal grandmother. Now aged 3, she is much loved and cherished but sadly, every day is a struggle…  Grandmother Gertrude is everything to Fatuma. She plays the role of Fatuma’s mother and father at the same time. The […]

Farewell Dinesh

Soon we will be saying goodbye to our current representative child, Dinesh in Nepal, and welcoming a new child as the face of cbm Child Sponsorship. On the towering hillsides of Nepal, Dinesh was born with one leg completely missing. No thigh or stump for attaching a prosthetic leg. This would become one of the […]

World Hearing Forum

At the first General Assembly of the World Hearing Forum (WHF), which took place on 4-5 December, CBM played a prominent role as member of the forum’s steering committee and co-chair of one of four working groups. The theme of the meeting, which took place in Geneva, was Alliance – Advocacy – Action. Pictured – CBM’s EHC […]