Christian Blind Mission (CBM) acts upon the needs and rights of people with disabilities; 12 million people worldwide benefit from CBM's support.

CBM supports the provision of more than 1000 programmes in 113 countries in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, and Latin America. Fields of work include medical services, education, and rehabilitation for people with disabilities. Wherever possible, it is the aim to provide these services within the communities. Therefore, Community-Based Rehabilitation programmes are promoted.

Support in Concrete

The focus of CBM's work is to enable local and national partners in developing countries to implement services for people with disabilities, mainly for people with

Visual disabilities, Hearing disabilities, Physical disabilities, Mental disabilities, or Intellectual disabilities.

In addition, CBM runs interdisciplinary programmes. These include the secondment of staff to CBM's partner organisations, and vocational training and employment for persons with disabilities, as well as disaster relief, in case a project is affected.

Information provided by http://www.cbm.org