What does CBM Ireland do?
CBM is dedicated to helping people affected by the double-disadvantage of poverty and disability. Poverty and disability go hand-in-hand, making people with disability among the poorest in the world, and far more likely to be isolated, and experience inequality.
We work in 12 of the poorest countries in the world to fight poverty and exclusion and transform lives. We implment community-based programmes, working with local partners to help people break free from this cycle. Our partners deliver community-based rehabilitation, access to education, livelihoods training, medical services and emergency humanitarian response.
The CBM approach focuses on ensuring that no one is left behind and that the most vulnerable are included in both long-term development and disaster relief work. We address poverty both as a cause and a consequence of disability.
Youth First Kenya
CBM Ireland, in collaboration with Fondation D’Harcourt, Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya and Corstone US, aims to increase mental health literacy and promote resilience through Youth First Kenya (YFK), an evidence-based program targeting 13-15-year-old students.
Youth First Kenya is a teacher-facilitated, school-based program that draws from the latest research in positive psychology and social-emotional learning.
Inclusive Communities
Inclusive Communities builds the capacity of people with disabilities to be visible, equal participants in community life with access to available, affordable, inclusive services including increased economic wellbeing and livelihoods, inclusive health services, and inclusive education.
VIVID - Disability Inlcusive Volunteering
CBM Ireland led a new project funded by EU Aid Volunteers, focused on improving inclusion in volunteer management and humanitarian action.
Persons with disabilities are estimated to represent 15% of the world’s population. In humanitarian contexts their mortality rate is two to four times higher than persons without disabilities. Therefore, humanitarian action projects must evolve to meet the needs of people with disabilities. VIVID aimed to turn this aspiration into a reality.
Bridge the Gap
Bridge the Gap was CBM Ireland’s three-year programme (2018-2021) in Ethiopia, which set the overall aim to see an inclusive environment established in two zones – East Gojjam and South Gondar of Amhara region in which children and adults with disabilities enjoy their rights, live as equal citizens, are resilient and counted as a development force of Ethiopia. The project aimed to build the capacity of members of local government, to strengthen the health and education services, and to educate communities so that people with disabilities are accepted, respected and treated as equal members of society.