HAITI: Without proper medical care, child disability figures will soar.
CBM has worked with local partners in Haiti since 1976. Our Earthquake Appeal is committed to meeting immediate medical needs, while also rebuilding infrastructure to meet long-term needs and ensure the human rights for those with disabilities are met.
The Centre d'Education Special (Centre for Special Education) runs a programme for early detection, intervention and care for children with intellectual disabilities, with parental involvement.
The project has several pre-vocational workshops (ceramics, knit-ware etc) and an integration program for children from rural and slum areas.
This project is primarily a resource centre, spread across two sites in N'Djamena, Chad.
It provides inclusive education for children and young adults and helps to integrate them into their communities.
It also provides outreach to refugees from Darfur.
This project provides support to the Neglected Tropical Diseases Programme in Burundi.
This project is a Community Based Rehabilitation project based in Bujumbura, Burundi and it covers a population of around 400,000.
It funds fieldworkers who provide essential services for people who are living with physical or visual disabilities.
This project is a rehabilitation unit for children and it is based in Lusaka, Zambia.
The project provides physiotherapy, schooling and some pre-vocational training such as knitting and embroidery.
This is a Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) project based in the town of Garoua, Northern Cameroon, serving a population of around 450,000 but also reaches out to a rural population within 200Km.
The main focus of this project is to provide rehabilitation to people with disabilities, hearing and visual impairment and epilepsy.
This Eye Department is part of a large general hospital based in Vanga - about 300km from the capital Kinshasa and it serves a population of more than 6.5 million people through its extensive Outreach Programmes.
There are around 80,000 blind people, of which half, have been blinded by Cataracts. There is also a high rate of child malnutrition.
The ECWA Central Pharmacy is located in Jos in Nigeria and it produces eye drops for CBM eye care units and other eye departments throughout the country.
The unit's eye products are increasingly being registered by NAFDAC, the Nigerian authority for drug control. In 2006, it produced more than 180,000 bottles of eye drops, helping to save the sight of thousands of people.
This project is attached to the Bawku General Hospital and provides training for Opthalmic Nurses.
In addition, it provides the much needed Outreach Programmes for Northern Ghana and Northern Togo; an optical workshop and a eye drop production unit.
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