🏗️From the first groundbreaking to the final touches, the new Mengo Hospital Eye Complex has been a transformative journey of commitment and progress towards becoming a self-sustaining, national referral eye care center. CBM Christian Blind Mission #EyecareForAll 🏥✨

“When I had my bandage removed, I cannot describe the joy I felt!'

When Teodosia started losing her sight, she assumed it was an unavoidable part of ageing. But soon she could only see shadows and was reliant on her family for basic activities. Read her story:🧵 [1/5]

Beat the drums for transformative education! Join #GAWE2024 and its theme #TransformativeEducationNow . UNESCO reported in 2023 that 250mil children remain out of school and 773mil adults around the world still lack basic literacy skills. Let’s unite to ensure #EducationForAll 🌍

🗓️Save the date for a CBM Christian Blind Mission facilitated webinar where we explore:
📌The crucial role of CSOs in combatting #tNTDs
📌 Successful strategies adopted by CSOs to #BeatNTDs
📌Knowledge exchange among CSOs & 🔑policymakers.

🗓️Thursday, May 23
⏲️1.00 pm GMT, 2.00 pm CET.

This week, we reunited partners of our Ukraine programme, funded by CBM Christian Blind Mission, to discuss the results of the first phase and the way forward.

Our coordinator Gordon Rattray reports from the meeting:
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Following #WorldHealthDay let's remember health is a human right! Our Global Ear & Hearing Care Advisor, Diego Santana explains the importance of access to quality ear and hearing care and CBM's approach at a global level working with UN agencies, like World Health Organization (WHO), towards change.

Around 125M people in 42 countries around the world 🌎 remain at risk of #trachoma . #CommunityHealthWorkers are the heroes working tirelessly to ensure that quality #EyeCare is a right for all.

#WHWWeek #WorldHealthDay

The team OURS Ankole Diocese and #eyecentre is travelling today to Ntungamo district for a radio talkshow today evening and Community Outreach tomorrow at Kyamate HC III. So extend rehabilitation + eye care to people #CBID #eyehealth
CBM Christoffel-Blindenmission in Deutschland CBM Christoffel-Blindenmission in Deutschland

Since 2021, Ethiopia 🇪🇹 has been implementing the SAFE strategy to eliminate #trachoma as a public health issue. With ORDA Ethiopia Official & Grarbet Tehadiso Mahber, CBM Christian Blind Mission supported:
🧼 8 districts with a focus on F&E
⚕️ 10 districts with a focus on SAFE

#BeatNTDs

Today, OURS Ankole Diocese hosted visitors from CBM Christian Blind Mission Uganda Country office for an auditing visit for the BMZ funded project Bundesentwicklungsministerium, later visited the VSLA group in Nyamitanga-Mbarara city.
ANKOLE DIOCESE Dr Bitekyerezo Medard (Biteks) CBM Christian Blind Mission Agaba Bob CBM Christoffel-Blindenmission in Deutschland

Today we're conducting a CBID stakeholders meeting for stakeholders from Rwampara, Mbarara City, Mbarara DLG, Rwampara, Ntungamo districts in kicking off the #Earlyinterventionsforcwds
Thanks to the support from CBM Christian Blind Mission CBM Christoffel-Blindenmission in Deutschland
cc: Dr Bitekyerezo Medard (Biteks) ANKOLE DIOCESE

Wonderful to meet N. Armelle Aimerique from the Coordinating Unit of Associations of Persons with #Disabilities in Cameroon on the margins of a conference in Berlin: Great how enthusiastically she reports on successes of capacity building made possible by CBM Christian Blind Mission funding!

Embracing self-employment: In May 2023, as a way to support persons with disabilities, especially the youth who were part of the saving groups NUDIPU with support from CBM Christian Blind Mission trained some in vocational skills & later were given startup kits.-
Esther Kyozira Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development

To address the challenges faced by women with disabilities, we need to take an intersectional approach. This International Women's Day, discover our interview with disability rights advocates Silvia Quan and Rosidalia Aldana: loom.ly/6hzcBZk #InspireInclusion #IWD2024