19 May 2023
Introducing Hermie
For those who don’t know Hermie, we feel she personifies the heart of cbm. Prior to working for cbm Hermie lived in South Africa and worked...
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20 April 2023
Visiting HRDC in Nepal
cbm’s Board chair, Andrew Smith, and his wife Inez, recently travelled to Nepal, where they completed a five day trek in the Himalayas. Whilst...
4 April 2023
CBM Ambassadors witness sight-saving surgery
The incredible impact people, like you, are having was witnessed by two CBM ambassadors recently, when they travelled to the cbm-funded...
3 April 2023
Update: Madagascar Famine
Because of people like you… farmers like Mosa can sow the seeds of a stronger future. Before, Mosa’s life was so hard that his spade doubled as...
13 March 2023
Update: Kenya Drought Crisis
Because of people like you, children and adults on the brink of starvation, due to ongoing droughts in Kenya, are receiving the help they need....
1 March 2023
Make your gifts go 33% further
Did you know you can claim a 33% tax rebate for donations of $5 or over? Go to www.ird.govt.nz for more info. To take full advantage of...
8 February 2023
2023 Prayer Diary
Pray with us daily with cbm’s 2023 Prayer Diary to help support people with disabilities and the cbm staff and workers who serve them. We...
18 January 2023
Reaching the most vulnerable children in Nepal
We first met Yam during the COVID-19 pandemic. With little access to education, health and basic essentials during the pandemic, Yam and his...
14 December 2022
Madagascar Famine Update
Earlier this year generous supporters responded to cbm’s Madgascar Famine appeal. Helping vulnerable children and families suffering from the...
8 December 2022
Providing Clean Water
Thanks to generous cbm supporters for faithfully supporting Neglected Tropical Disease’s (NTD’s) like Trachoma in Nigeria. The...
23 November 2022
Helping you make Christmas truly meaningful
Thank you for caring for children and adults who face the double disadvantage of poverty and disability. You play a big part in restoring health...
17 November 2022
Inclusive Education in Papua New Guinea
During her recent visit to Papua New Guinea, Karen Jack, cbm’s Pacific Regional Co-ordinator, made significant progress for the education of...
10 November 2022
Celebrating the Kabgayi Eye Unit in Rwanda
Thanks to generous cbm supporters for faithfully supporting the Kabgayi Eye Unit. The Kabgayi Eye Unit is a vital facility performing almost 80%...
26 October 2022
Advent 2022
Join us online for Advent 2022 to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas. Invite your family, friends and neighbours and spread the good news!...
13 October 2022
Love Your Eyes
World Sight Day is all about putting your eye health first and calling on others to #LoveYourEyes.Most of us will experience eye health issues,...
5 October 2022
CBM Global Impact
Fighting to end the cycle of poverty and disability: Thanks to generous supporters all over the world, CBM globally (including cbm New Zealand),...
15 September 2022
Making Miracles Happen
Miracles Day raised over $70,000! Thank you for your overwhelming kindness! Your generous gifts, along with the New Zealand Aid Programme...
1 September 2022
Ramsaran’s Life-changing Transformation
Five-year-old Ramsaran barely left the family hut due to his severe clubfoot. He was unable to go to school, as his ankles were bent inwards...
15 August 2022
Giving the Gift of Sight
Retired Blenheim Optometrist donates equipment to cbm partners in Papua New Guinea. During her recent visit to Papua New Guinea Karen Jack, cbm’s...
1 August 2022
Visit from David Bainbridge
CBM Global’s Executive Director, David Bainbridge, visited New Zealand in late July. David has been a great servant leader, who has faithfully...
18 July 2022
2021 Impact Report
Thank you for your ongoing support. Throughout the turbulence of 2021 cbm continued to offer life-saving and life changing help to those in the...
14 July 2022
Visiting Papua New Guinea
With the borders reopening, Karen, our Pacific Regional Coordinator was eager to visit each of our cbm partners in Papua New Guinea to hear about...
4 July 2022
Global Gathering in Kenya
Our CEO Murray Sheard, along with Director of Programmes Linabel Hadlee and Board Member Ray Coster, have recently returned from Kenya following...
13 June 2022
Restoring Sight in PNG
cbm NZ and their partner in PNG, the Network of Callan Service for Persons with Disabilities, recently teamed up with the East Sepik Provincial...
3 June 2022
Community Champions
Nigeria has one of the lowest levels of maternal and newborn health in the world, according to the Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey....
9 May 2022
New Zealand Sign Language Week
As we celebrate NZ Sign Language this week, we thank you for your support for children and young adults in developing countries. Many children...
11 April 2022
Hygiene Kits for PNG
Your loving kindness is helping to care for those living with the triple challenge of poverty, disability and COVID-19, in the remote Highlands...
9 March 2022
Madagascar Crisis Worsens
The island nation of Madagascar was recently hit by two major storms. Tropical storm Ana and Cyclone Batsirai hit with devastating impacts,...
8 March 2022
International Women’s Day
Due to climate change, there is little to buy at a small local market in Southern Madagascar, but the fresh tomatoes are a welcome change from...
1 March 2022
Typhoon Rai Response
Super Typhoon Rai hit the Philippines on 16 December 2021. With winds of around 195km/h and gusts of up to 270km/h, the typhoon affected millions...
11 February 2022
International Day of Education
Celebrated earlier this month, the UN’s International Day of Education is focused on strengthening a return to education. cbm, and their...
10 January 2022
We’ve got the tick!
The New Zealand aid sector is now supported by a ‘quality tick’. The Council for International Development (CID) is the umbrella organisation for...
20 December 2021
2022 Prayer Diary
Pray with us daily to help support people living with disabilities and the cbm staff and workers who serve them. We believe in the power of...
13 December 2021
Restoring Sight, Restoring Families
Transforming lives at the Kingdom Faith Based Hospital (KFBH) in Bungoma County, Western Kenya. While the KFBH has been providing general health...
3 December 2021
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
To build a better world following the COVID-19 pandemic it is cbm’s priority to ensure all people with disabilities have access to vaccines,...
19 November 2021
Advent 2021
Join us online for Advent 2021 to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas. Invite your family, friends and neighbours and spread the good news!...
10 November 2021
Benjamin & Patience
Thanks to generous cbm Child Sponsors Benjamin’s whole family have benefitted from their faithful support! Benjamin, our 2021 Representative...
1 November 2021
Madagascar Update
Helping families and people with disabilities on the brink of extreme hunger. Back in July, you may have seen and responded to an urgent email...
13 October 2021
Love Your Eyes
World Sight Day, Thursday 14 October, aims to highlight the effects of visual impairment and the importance of eliminating avoidable...
10 October 2021
Mental Health in an Unequal World
World Mental Health Day, Sunday 10 October. Be a partner, be an advocate. The world is increasingly polarized, with the number of people living...
14 September 2021
Flash floods in Cox’s Bazar
Thanks to the generosity of cbm supporters like you, cbm continues to support vulnerable people in Cox’s Bazar as flash floods and landslides...
3 September 2021
Happy Father’s Day
To all Fathers, Stepfathers, Grandfathers, Uncles, Brothers and all the other men in our lives, we hope you have a Happy Father’s Day. May...
27 August 2021
Benjamin Can Now See!
Two-year-old Benjamin was born with congenital bilateral cataracts. The youngest of five children and, unfortunately, not the only one in...
19 August 2021
World Humanitarian Day
Providing life-saving support and protection during the COVID-19 pandemic. On World Humanitarian Day, cbm honours all aid and health workers who...
30 July 2021
UN Eye Resolution
cbm celebrates important Eye Resolution passed by the United Nations. In late July, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a...
8 July 2021
2020 Impact Report
Thank you for your ongoing support. Throughout the turbulence of 2020 cbm continued to offer life-saving and life changing help to those in the...
28 June 2021
Meet Benjamin
Two-year-old Benjamin was born with congenital bilateral cataracts. He is the youngest of five children and, unfortunately, he is not the only...
8 June 2021
Isolated in Nepal
Abandoned at birth by his mother, and with an alcoholic father, 11-year-old Yam is fully reliant on his grandmother for his routine tasks and...
13 May 2021
End Obstetric Fistula
Obstetric fistula is a health condition that has life-threatening consequences for women in some of the poorest countries in the world, and is...
20 April 2021
Discontinuation of Cheques
Thank you for the kind and generous gifts you give to help those living with the double disadvantage of poverty and disability. You are the...
15 April 2021
Annual Tax Receipts
Thank you so much for your generous support in the 2020-2021 tax year. Your annual tax receipt is on the way, and you should receive it by the...
30 March 2021
Memo of Understanding
Earlier this year CBM Global and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) signed a 5-year Memorandum of Understanding. This partnership...
24 February 2021
Mrs Doris Sadeghi
In 1955, Doris Head (now Doris Sadeghi) travelled to Iran to teach at the Nur Ayin Institute for the Blind, a continuation of work which had been...
15 February 2021
Their joy motivates me!
A day in the life of Dr Sylvain el-Khoury who, until recently, was the cbm ophthalmologist working at the Kabgayi Eye Clinic in Rwanda. When a...
30 January 2021
Celebrating World NTD Day
Thanks to your generous support cbm has successfully been involved in the prevention of blindness from Onchocerciasis and Trachoma for more than...
13 January 2021
Vision Excellence Awards
Congratulations to Dr Jambi Garap, the Ophthalmologist who conducts most of the cbm cataract outreach clinics in Papua New Guinea, for receiving...
3 December 2020
World Disability Day
The International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD), also known as World Disability Day is annually observed on 3 December each year. This...
11 November 2020
The Miracle of Sight in PNG
We are thrilled to share with you the latest news from our cbm-funded cataract outreach clinics in Papua New Guinea. In PNG, the number of people...
10 October 2020
World Mental Health Day
This year’s World Mental Health Day comes at a time when our daily lives have changed considerably as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The past...
17 September 2020
Human Rights
International Week of the Deaf and NZ Sign Language Week are celebrated annually, during 21-27 September, through various activities and events...
1 September 2020
Fatuma’s Miracle of Sight
Our Child Sponsors can take great joy in the wonderful things they are doing for children like Fatuma. A remarkable new video has just arrived...
19 August 2020
World Humanitarian Day
Our partners and staff in the refugee camps of Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh, show selfless commitment during the COVID-19 pandemic by ensuring that...
19 August 2020
World Humanitarian Day
While acknowledging World Humanitarian Day for the 11th year, we pay special tribute to the real-life heroes who have committed their lives to...
14 July 2020
FOOD SECURITY & NUTRITION
COVID-19 will impact poor children and see poverty return to historic levels. Thirteen NZ aid organisations, including cbm are warning...
9 July 2020
POCKET MONEY DONATION
12-year-old Naomi, from the Manawatu, has decided she has enough money in the bank, and is now donating her hard-earned pocket money to...
24 June 2020
CBM NZ IMPACT REPORT
A message from our Board Chair, Susan Willis-Hirst As I write this, our world is surrounded with uncertainty and fear. One thing we are certain...
28 May 2020
INTL DAY TO END FISTULA
On Saturday 23 May we honoured women like Victoria, who are living with Obstetric Fistula. Young women like Victoria, who at just 22-years-old,...
21 May 2020
GLAM UP & GIVE
‘Glam Up & Give’ is a global social media movement launched on Friday 8 May and since then a number of counties including the UK, Australia,...
23 April 2020
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...
16 April 2020
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...
3 April 2020
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...
26 March 2020
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...
8 March 2020
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...
3 March 2020
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...
14 February 2020
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...
29 January 2020
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...
15 January 2020
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...
11 December 2019
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...
29 November 2019
CBM Visit PNG
In October Murray Sheard, CEO cbm NZ, had the opportunity to travel to the Eastern Highlands Province in Papua New Guinea. cbm has been...
21 November 2019
Miracles Day
Your $35 and a 12-minute operation can change a life forever. Help us give the Miracle gift of sight today. Become an Eye Champion and change...
14 November 2019
Counting Down
Just one week to go! On Thursday 21 November listen to The Morning Wakeup on Rhema and Life FM, and Rhema and help turn blindness into sight for...
21 October 2019
Vision First in PNG
World Sight Day is an international event observed annually in October to draw attention to blindness and low vision and to give those affected a...
10 October 2019
World Sight Day
Today, as we celebrate World Sight Day, it’s timely to look back on the history of cbm New Zealand (formerly known as the Christian Blind...
1 October 2019
Humanitarian Aid
Three-year old Haris undergoes physiotherapy at the cbm-CDD rehabilitation health centre in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. His disability limits his...