Read the latest news and stories from CBM Australia’s work helping people with disabilities living in the world’s poorest places.

A Better Way to Address Mental Health
After 10 years of working with government on mental health programs in Aceh, it became clear that linking people...

Advising Government and Multilateral Programs on Disability Inclusion
CBM Global’s Inclusion Advisory Group is an international network...

Ensuring that Everyone Has Access to Eye Health Support
CBM has been supporting eye health programs in Indonesia for many years. “But no...

A Tested Approach: Community Based Inclusive Development in Indonesia
One of the real game changers for rural people...

A Story of Hope and Survival for this Father’s Day
For most people across the globe, the past year and a half has been...

Compelled to Make a Difference
Before I started work with CBM Australia I didn’t realise that there was another level of poverty, which is people with disabilities living in...

Ensuring that humanitarian responses are inclusive
Indonesia has its fair share of natural hazards, and often it’s people with disabilities...

World Humanitarian Day: Thursday 19th August 2021
Can you imagine being caught in a cyclone or flash flood without the ability to run to safety or...

Unequal Pandemic: Intensifying Violence, Abuse and Discrimination
People with disabilities are more likely to experience violence,...

Unequal Pandemic: Deepening Learning Gaps in Education
The sudden and drastic pivot to remote learning as a result of school closures...

Unequal pandemic: worsening precarious economic situations
Eighteen months into the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, work practices, businesses and livelihoods are still...

Unequal pandemic: embedding unequal access to health services
In times of disaster events and crises, people with disabilities are often the hardest...

Unequal Pandemic: Driving Food Insecurity
People who are already on the margins of society in many ways, including people with disabilities, have been further...

CBM Australia Joins Historic Disaster Relief Alliance
CBM, Australia’s leading disability inclusive development organisation, joined 16 Australian charities to launch the...

Help, When it Seems There is No Hope From Anywhere
Life was already tough for Sher (pictured) before COVID-19 took away his ability to...

CBM supports Dala and other at-risk people in Nepal during Covid-19
Covid-19 has had a terrible impact on people living...

Covid-19 response: CBM provides essential food in Nepal
It was a cold morning, the first chill of winter making itself known by...

Hunger is gripping madagascar
Like many countries around the world, the island of Madagascar off the coast of East Africa has been hit hard by COVID-19. Tragically, the...

Heart to help: CBM Supporter Ant Van Hewsden’s Miracle story
Despite a difficult start in life, and issues with...

CBM in Nepal: Covid-19 hits hard
Although Covid-19 infection rates in Nepal are on the decline after an all-time high in May, the negative impact on people’s mental health and...