Cbm helped millions of persons with disabilities and atrisk of disabilities improve their lives and end the vicious cycle of poverty and disability. Late last year, i had the opportunity to meet valieth and susana, two young sisters who had been identified through a community screening. This office oversees cbm s work in the seven eastern africa countries of ethiopia, kenya, rwanda, tanzania, uganda all core programme countries, burundi, and south sudan. Blindness, cataract, cbm, child, disability, tanzania. In working to create a world in which persons with disabilities not only. Cbm s work on disability inclusive development did has evolved and is driven by our did initiative. Inclusion of persons with disabilities in social protection. As a signatory to accountable now and the core humanitarian standards, cbm is accountable and must demonstrate how we embed and monitor disability and gender equality in all that we do. Cbm released a new application to promote inclusion of persons with. Cbm christoffelblindenmission cbr communitybased rehabilitation. Cbm can best facilitate and support the access of children with disabilities to quality, child centered education in kenya and tanzania.
Cbm s mission as an international organisation is to work towards an inclusive. Fostering respect for persons with albinism in tanzania. Inclusion counts the economic case for disabilityinclusive. A manual for health facilities should be developed. Dochas and disability federation ireland hosted a conference on inclusive. Comprehensive community based rehabilitation tanzania, moshitanzania. Context situation of persons with disabilities in tanzania according to the national disability survey, 2008. Tanzania for children with disabilities range between. A human rightsbased approach to disability in development cbm.
We arrived at their home and were greeted by the girls grandmother fausta. Findings from the study will inform the development. This is further framed by our commitment as an international development agency. Association amici di raoul follereau aifo, christian blind mission cbm and the world health organization disability and. Cbm has been working with partners in tanzania since the 1980s, preventing blindness, improving health and helping people with disabilities go to school, earn a living, access health carerehabilitation and secure respect in their communities. Introduction1 cbm ireland is an international christian.
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