Nairobi (ots/PRNewswire) - cbm through its staff and Regional Office in Nairobi is providing emergency assistance to the humanitarian crisis in Kenya. It is estimated that around 500,000 people have lost their homes, due to the widespread violence following the disputed election. Prof. Allen Foster, cbm's President announced, "There is an urgent need of food, shelter and health services, and cbm will ...
Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) - - President of cbm, Prof. Allen Foster Announces That cbm Has Expanded its Areas of Work to Include All Persons With Disability, Not Just Persons With Visual Loss. For the past 100 years, cbm previously known as Christoffel Blinden Mission, and Christian Blind Mission, has worked to prevent and treat blindness and provide education and rehabilitation services for persons with visual loss. "The organization has decided that its ...
Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) - "Governments need to recognize the rights and needs of people with disabilities," says Prof. Allen Foster, President of CBM on the International Day of Disabled Persons. Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations will not be achieved without the inclusion of the disabled in development programming states Foster. CBM is a leading advocate for the human rights of ...
Toronto, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - CBM President Professor Allen Foster met with the Director-General Dr Margaret Chan, for the World Health Organizations global initiative to eliminate avoidable blindness "Vision 2020: The Right to Sight" on the eve of World Sight Day 2007 at WHO Headquarters Geneva. Dr. Chan thanked CBM for their longstanding 20 year partnership and support, both financially and with technical ...
Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) - "The Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics promises to be an historic event for the world of sports and for people worldwide," says Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace. Adolf Ogi has scheduled a meeting with Liu Qi, President of the Beijing ...
Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) - Côte d'Ivoire soccer star Didier Drogba, currently top scorer in the English Premiership and the European Champions League, has become the latest football great to shoot for the United Nations. He will seek to score a different kind of goal in achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals. Drogba, who plays for Chelsea F.C. of the ...
Cape Town, South Africa (ots/PRNewswire) - "We can really do something to change the world," says Archbishop Desmond Tutu. "I think not being able to see is one of the most debilitating disabilities in our world today," Archbishop Tutu said at the launching of Christian Blind Mission's worldwide "100,000 Miracles" campaign at an International Press Conference held ...
Toronto, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - There are 18 million undernourished people and 7.5 million at risk of starvation and after six years of drought, crops across East Africa have failed again. National governments, local authorities and the United Nations need to respond in a timely matter as we have the means ...