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  • Help a child like Sarbendra walk, learn, and hope again.

      3 August 2026
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    For 15-year-old Sarbendra, the simple act of walking to school became impossible.

    Each day, his classmates made the hour-long journey along the mountain paths of rural Nepal. But Sarbendra remained behind – isolated at home, watching his dreams slowly slip away.

    Not because he didn’t want to learn. Not because he didn’t have the ability. But because his prosthetic leg had completely fallen apart.

    Help children like Sarbendra take their first steps towards a better future… cbmnz.org.nz/Sarbendra

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  • Sponsor a child like Faith today...

      18 May 2026
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    Blinded by cloudy cataracts, 6-year-old Faith lives in rural Uganda with her parents, Esther and Samuel, who work as subsistence farmers.

    The good news: cataracts can be treated. The challenge: in countries like Uganda, where Faith lives with her family, treatment is often out of reach - due to distance, cost, or both.

    The family’s daily struggle to earn enough for food leaves little for medical expenses.

    Once a bright and active child who loved singing and playing with friends, Faith can no longer attend school. Her teachers have told her to return only once her sight is restored.

    It doesn’t have to be that way. Your regular monthly gift can help transform lives and make impossible dreams come true. Become a cbm New Zealand Child Sponsor today.

    Learn how your Child Sponsorship can help children in the world’s poorest places... cbmnz.org.nz/child-sponsorship

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  • Help mothers like Arziki find hope and healing beyond the smell, shame and isolation of obstetric fistula...

      14 May 2026
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    Arziki’s labour began at home in Nigeria. Like many mothers in remote communities, she was surrounded by caring relatives – aunts and grandmothers doing their best – but there were no trained midwives or doctors available.

    For four long days she struggled through obstructed labour. Eventually she was rushed to hospital where doctors performed an emergency caesarean section.

    Tragically, her baby did not survive.

    Further heartbreak soon followed. While recovering in hospital, Arziki noticed her bed was constantly wet.

    In New Zealand, the loss of a baby is mercifully rare compared with many of the world’s poorest places. Access to skilled maternity care protects most mothers. But in parts of Africa – including rural Nigeria – childbirth can still be life-threatening for both mothers and their babies.

    Without treatment, obstetric fistula often causes chronic infections, kidney damage, infertility, depression, and deep social isolation. Many mothers are rejected by their communities and even their families because of the smell and stigma.

    Imagine trying to care for yourself – let alone grieve a lost baby – while constantly leaking urine and fearing humiliation wherever you go.

    Help mothers like Arziki find hope and healing beyond the smell, shame and isolation of obstetric fistula… cbmnz.org.nz/arziki

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  • Help give the Miracle of Sight today

      9 April 2026
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    Cataracts often steal sight so gradually that no one notices at first. A child leans closer to the page. He rubs his eyes. He hesitates in the playground. What is lost over months and years can, through the Miracle of Sight, be restored in just twelve minutes of delicate surgery - bringing back a lifetime of light and promise.

    For nine-year-old Samarpan in Nepal, blindness crept in quietly.

    Samarpan loves to draw, so no one thought it unusual that he bent low over his

    artwork. But then his schoolwork began to suffer. This once bright student stopped doing well in class, and his parents never imagined their son was losing his sight.

    In the world’s poorest places, child blindness brings deep fear. Without sight, how will a child learn? How will he work? How will he live safely and independently?

    Help give the Miracle of Sight today… www.cbmnz.org.nz/samarpan

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  • Your caring gift is urgently needed to help eradicate Neglected Tropical Diseases for good.

      2 March 2026
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    For children like 11-year-old Fatima in Nigeria, Neglected Tropical Diseases once threatened everything – their health, their education, and their future.

    River Blindness, Elephantiasis, Snail Fever and Trachoma have stolen sight, mobility and dignity from millions of people in the world’s poorest places.

    The consequences of these diseases were devastating. People lost their sight. Parents became unable to work. Children dropped out of school to care for sick relatives. These diseases didn’t just damage bodies – they stole futures.

    Please help bring healing where it’s needed most, your gift today will be multiplied seven times… https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/fatima/

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  • This tiny triplet needed miracle after miracle. First to survive, then to see.

      2 February 2026
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    In Zimbabwe, Nadiah’s birth was a whirlwind of medical urgency. Three tiny, fragile lives entered the world too early, their cries faint whispers against the hum of the ward. They were named: Nadiah, Nigel, and a third sibling whose name would forever be whispered with a heartache too deep for words.

    Heartbroken over the loss of their child, Nadiah's parents were worried about her too. She was weak, quiet and still, and unlike her surviving brother, Nigel, there were no smiles or happy gurgles.

    Looking intently into their daughter’s eyes, instead of beautiful dark pools, there were cloudy cataracts.

    Help give the Miracle of Sight to adults and children, like Nadiah, in the world's poorest places.

    Learn more… www.cbmnz.org.nz/nadiah

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  • Help women like Kanda escape the cycle of poverty and disability by giving them the skills and training they need to live independently…

      15 January 2026
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    In Laos Kanda’s childhood illness affected both her feet, making walking difficult and leaving her excluded from her community. As a child she was bullied and discouraged, and for years, her voice simply wasn’t heard.

    “Friends called me names,” she recalls. Yet Kanda refused to give up.

    Despite being discouraged from continuing her education, her determination remained strong. She learnt to sew, married, and began making clothes and traditional Lao skirts to sell. But competition was high, and her income was never enough to give her family stability.

    Please help women like Kanda escape the cycle of poverty and disability by giving them the skills and training they need to live independently.

    Learn more... www.cbmnz.org.nz/kanda

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  • Help give the miracle gift of sight this Christmas…

      27 November 2025
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    With eyes blurred by cataracts 11-year-old Dipendra is such a brave boy. In his steep valley in Nepal – so hazardous for a child who cannot see – he never complained as his sight faded. Even his parents could not tell he was going blind.

    He simply kept going to school, squinting at the blackboard as the letters melted together. He thought that was how the world looked for everyone.

    Isn’t that an extraordinary thought – that children may not know they are losing their sight.

    Help give the miracle gift of sight this Christmas… www.cbmnz.org.nz/dipendra

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  • Help give clean Water For Life in the world's poorest places...

      3 November 2025
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    Every day, dirty water kills more than 1,000 children under the age of 5. That’s one child… every 90 seconds.

    Please consider making a special gift to bring clean Water For Life to people in places like Nigeria, living with a deadly water crisis.

    It is devastating for families who live with the daily threat of disability caused by Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) like River Blindness. These diseases are cruel, but they are entirely preventable – if only families had access to clean, safe water.

    And just like in previous years, your gift will be doubled by this year’s Christmas Miracle Match Fund!

    Learn more... www.cbmnz.org.nz/wash-water-for-life

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  • Help provide hope and healing to mothers like Mary.

      1 October 2025
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    What greater burden could there be for a mother in Nigeria? One by one, Mary lost all four of her babies, just as they were being born. Heartbreak after heartbreak. All her children, stillborn.

    It is hard to imagine such loss and grief. Yet Mary’s unimaginable pain is made even more agonising, by the debilitating condition of obstetric fistula. Urine was seeping out from her and would not stop.

    So much loss, then endless leaking. Four stillborn children, then obstetric fistula. Help mothers like Mary find hope and healing by sending your life-changing gift today.

    https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/activity/fistula-nigeria/

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  • Help give the Miracle of Sight in Papua New Guinea

      3 September 2025
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    When Patrick was a baby, his mother saw the dim disks of cataracts in the eyes of her firstborn. Living in Papua New Guinea, she knew what they meant. A childhood of increasing blindness and a lifetime of poverty, even more challenging than her own.

    All Patrick’s Mum and Dad could do was hope that his sight would never grow dim. The time came, though, when they could no longer deny it: “He kept moving the paper very close to his eyes,” said Michelle. “Patrick could not see clearly!”

    Help give the Miracle of Sight for children, like 13-year-old Patrick, living in Papua New Guinea. Your gift will be multiplied x5 by our Government’s Aotearoa New Zealand International Development Cooperation Programme enabling $175 of impact!

    Learn more… cbmnz.org.nz/Patrick

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  • Help straighten and strengthen little feet like Masaum's...

      28 July 2025
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    What a sweet wee boy Mausam is – caught in a moment of sheer delight by the toys around him at the cbm-funded disability hospital in Nepal.

    His parents are overwhelmed with gratitude. They simply cannot believe that their adored son has received such extraordinary care for his bilateral clubfoot – all because of wonderfully generous people like you!

    Please send your gift today, to help set more children free from their disability for life!

    cbmnz.org.nz/mausam

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  • Help light up the lives of adults and children with avoidable blindness.

      2 July 2025
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    Serious disability is common in the world’s poorest places. It is not unusual to find people with multiple disabilities. Like Rodgers in Zimbabwe, who contracted polio at a very young age, and then later on in life developed a cataract. His wife also lives with two disabilities affecting both her speech and hearing.

    All through life, Rodgers worked hard to provide for his family, mending shoes and clothes. But a simple, tiny cataract brought real concern to his household by reducing Rodgers’s ability to earn a living.

    Please help turn darkness back to light with a gift for sight-saving cataract surgery today. By restoring sight, you will help ease the burden of avoidable blindness for adults and children living in poverty.

    Learn more… cbmnz.org.nz/rodgers

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  • Help create a life-changing oasis for children and adults in the overcrowded refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

      30 May 2025
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    These crowded sand dunes covered in blocks of makeshift shelters have been home to 9-year-old Harisa since almost a million Rohingya refugees fled from Myanmar in 2017.

    Harisa’s parents carried their little girl all the way to safety, because her tiny body was locked in the grip of cerebral palsy. Her parents never stopped looking for a way to help their beloved daughter. And thanks to the loving kindness of people like you, they found it!

    Learn more… cbmnz.org.nz/harisa

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  • Help keep hope alive for mothers with obstetric fistula.

      28 April 2025
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    Halimat felt like the only one with the debilitating condition of obstetric fistula. Who else on earth would be uncontrollably leaking urine – day in, day out – through a wound in her birth canal.

    “I’ve never known of any woman with this condition,” she said. “Not ever in my life.”

    Little did she realise that across the world today – and especially in Nigeria – hundreds of thousands of mothers are suffering in this way. The silence around obstetric fistula is deafening.

    Please prayerfully consider sending your gift today to help keep hope alive for mothers, like Halimat, living with the life-long smell, shame and isolation of obstetric fistula.

    www.cbmnz.org.nz/halimat

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  • Help give the miracle of sight to children like Krind…

      2 April 2025
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    Blindness steals so much more than sight – it takes away hope, education, independence, and even survival. In Nepal, 5-year-old Krind’s vision was so poor, he couldn’t see anything just a few feet away.

    His teachers noticed he was struggling, unable to keep up with other children, he stopped playing. His world was closing in. For families trapped in deep poverty, the diagnosis of childhood cataracts is challenging. Without intervention a child, like Krind, faces a lifetime of blindness and despair. But thanks to the generous support of people like you, there is hope.

    www.cbmnz.org.nz/krind

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  • Help light up their lives!

      3 February 2025
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    Twenty years ago, in Zimbabwe, Nelly began experiencing itchy eyes and cloudy vision. Everyday life grew increasingly difficult, and it broke her heart to rely on others for simple tasks, like threading a needle for mending.

    Cataracts were blinding her eyes.

    “I tried all the herbal medicines I use to help others,” Nelly explained, “but they didn’t work for me.”

    As you know, cataracts require surgery to restore vision. Sadly, Nelly could never afford the advanced hospital treatment needed.

    For people like Nelly, who have no hope of overcoming cataract-related blindness on their own, your gift today for cataract surgery will help bring hope, and the promise of new light in their lives.

    Learn more… www.cbmnz.org.nz/nelly

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  • Dilmaya may only be 18 years old, but she’s already suffered so much... all because of people’s misunderstanding.

      10 January 2025
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    Imagine having a health condition so misunderstood that people fear you. This is why 18-year-old Dilmaya from Nepal shares her story with a deep sadness that will break your heart…

    “I don’t have any friends now.”

    But, there are two ways you can change the lives of people like Dilmaya today, with love, and with understanding.

    Learn more... www.cbmnz.org.nz/dilmaya

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  • A gift from you this Christmas will restore the sight – and hopes and dreams – of adults and children, like Aanand.

      5 December 2024
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    Children, like 7-year-old Aanand in Nepal, with treatable conditions such as cataracts, have done nothing to deserve the hardship and unkindness they often have to endure. Instead, they struggle on – missing out on so much of the fun and joy of childhood that they deserve. It’s a heartbreaking thought, isn’t it?

    As the joy of Christmas approaches, will you please prayerfully consider giving a child, like Aanand, the miracle gift of sight.

    There’s no doubt that, for families like Aanand’s, your kindness can transform their lives.

    You can be part of the miracle they wish for.

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  • Current Appeal - Obstetric Fistula - Nigeria

      30 October 2024
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    The November appeal for cbm is raising funds for obstetric fistula. While obstetric fistula is virtually unknown in New Zealand, obstetric fistula affects mothers’ lives in places of extreme poverty, where there are virtually no resources for maternal healthcare. Obstetric fistula is a debilitating health condition, and Nigeria accounts for 40% of global cases. It is a preventable and treatable condition.

    Please will you consider a gift to help keep hope alive for mothers, like Jamila in Nigeria, living with the life-long smell, shame and isolation of obstetric fistula. Your gift will be doubled through the Christmas Miracle Match Fund.

    Find out more... https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/jamila/

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  • Current Appeal - Disability Nepal

      7 October 2024
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    Kajal and Omkar’s father has known a lifetime of pain, prejudice and poverty. You can spare Kajal and Omkar the same future by sending your life-changing gift to help children with disabilities in the world’s poorest places.

    Just like any 7-year-old girl, Kajal comes up with an exciting new dream just about every day!

    It’ll warm your heart to hear what her father Babulal says with a smile…

    “Sometimes when she comes home from school, she says to me, ‘Father, I want to become a doctor’ and some days she says she wants to join the police.”

    But the honest truth – which Kajal’s father Babulal knows only too well – is that she will never get the chance to realise her dreams, unless someone like you makes the surgery she needs possible.

    Your gift today will be a true blessing, bringing new life and hope to children like Kajal and Omkar, before it’s too late.

    Find out more…

    https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/activity/disability-nepal/

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  • Current Appeal - Cataracts Papua New Guinea

      12 September 2024
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    With support from caring people like you, cbm Christian Blind Mission is on a mission to end the cycle of poverty and disability in places like Papua New Guinea where there are many children and adults living with avoidable blindness.

    Six-year-old Monica was born with congenital bilateral cataracts, and like many children with disabilities in the world’s poorest places, Monica’s family could never afford the sight-saving cataract surgery she urgently needed.

    Without surgery, Monica would struggle to read her books or the chalkboard at school. Without support from generous people like you, she would miss out on vital education and be denied the opportunity to build a better future for herself.

    Please will you prayerfully consider sending a generous gift which will be multiplied x5 by our Government’s Aotearoa New Zealand International Development Cooperation Programme, to help transform the lives of even more adults and children with disabilities living in remote communities in Papua New Guinea.

    Find out more... https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/monica/

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  • Please help WASH away the misery of Neglected Tropical Diseases in the world’s poorest places…

      31 July 2024
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    “Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham…” – Genesis 26:18

    Help give access to fresh clean water!

    Please send your gift to help WASH away the misery of Neglected Tropical Diseases in places like Nigeria in the world’s poorest places…

    Each and every gift you give is a true blessing. cbm’s Water, Sanitation and Hygiene project (WASH) focuses on delivering clean water and good sanitation practices to communities to prevent Neglected Tropical Diseases from taking hold again.

    Most of us are fortunate to have a good supply of fresh clean water to use for our everyday living, but that is often not the case in many of the world’s poorest places. Around the world, there are millions of people who do not have access to fresh clean water.

    Thank you for your generosity to help transform the lives of people with disabilities living in poverty.

    Find out more… www.cbmnz.org.nz/wash-nigeria

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  • Help give the miracle of sight-saving cataract surgery in the world’s poorest places...

      1 July 2024
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    “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.” – Matthew 6:22

    Yasodha is a happy, outgoing 8-year-old girl who dreams of joining the police when she grows up.

    But something was wrong. She could not see the words her school teachers wrote on the board - no matter how close she sat or how hard she squinted.

    She was scared of what this meant, and suffered in silence, afraid to admit the truth - even to herself.

    “I have to bend down while writing. It is difficult. At first, I didn’t tell anyone.

    But after my teacher asked me, I told her… I cannot see properly.”

    With your caring miracle gift of sight today, you can help take away the cataracts that cloud the eyes of children, like Yasodha, and change their lives forever.

    Children like Yasodha in Nepal need urgent cataracts surgery, because their brains are still developing. If they have to wait too long, their brains will forget how to translate light into sight. And they will go blind. Forever.

    Learn more... www.cbmnz.org.nz/yasodha

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  • Please send an urgent gift to help feed a child with a disability in Madagascar and give them hope for a better future.

      6 June 2024
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    To us, a bowl of white rice is a side dish. To the people of Madagascar, it’s the most prized food of all. But after numerous cyclones in the last few years, after floods that tore the soil away, and droughts that turned it to barren dust…

    …rice no longer grows.

    Just imagine the situation there… a mother or father whose children are waking up hungry and there is nothing to give them! There are stories of people going without food to try and keep their children alive. Sadly this is what is continuing to happen to families, like Mara and Maharavo’s, in Madagascar right now.

    Learn more... https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/maharavo/

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  • Help keep hope alive for mothers, like Comfort, living with obstetric fistula...

      29 April 2024
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    “…she forgets the anguish because of her joy…” – John 16:21

    How could Comfort from Nigeria ever feel joy again, after all she has been through? Yet this Mother’s Day we celebrate a great triumph of God’s love through the kindness of people like you.

    Comfort endured the deep sorrow of losing her baby in childbirth. Then, in grief upon grief, her body was wounded with one of the most debilitating health conditions: an obstetric fistula – a hole in her birth canal that let urine flow uncontrolled from her body.

    Learn how you can keep hope alive for mother’s like Comfort… www.cbmnz.org.nz/comfort

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  • Help give the Miracle of Sight to adults and children, like John, in the world’s poorest places.

      28 March 2024
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    John, from the Philippines, lives with his Mum Mary, his Dad Wilson and his baby sister Alexa. He is a ‘star pupil’ at school – top of his class! He loves Maths most of all, and dreams of becoming an engineer. His teachers say he has an incredibly bright future ahead of him.

    But his hopes and dreams were fading away – because 8-year-old John was going needlessly blind from congenital cataracts.

    Please will you prayerfully consider sending a generous sight-saving gift today, to help restore the hopes and dreams of adults and children, like John.

    By helping people with avoidable blindness you will be helping them to shine their brightest, to realise the potential God has given them, and to help lift them out of poverty. Learn more… www.cbmnz.org.nz/john

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  • Please help break the cycle of River Blindness...

      1 March 2024
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    In Nigeria there are still places at risk of River Blindness, which is causing life-long sight loss and pain. Please keep supporting and advancing this vital ministry, by sending a gift to bless the next generation, like Rakiya’s grandchildren, so they can receive the parasite-killing medication they need to keep them protected from River Blindness!

    The power of your gift will be multiplied x7, because every $1 you send means $7 of medication reaches the remote villages at greatest risk from these parasites. Learn more… www.cbmnz.org.nz/rakiya

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  • From Darkness to Light in only 12 minutes!

      2 February 2024
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    Cataracts sometimes grow slowly. But not for Stellar in Zimbabwe. The veil over her eyes fell quickly, until even by peering closely, she could no longer work. “It was hard to tell the weeds from the maize plant,” she lamented.

    For just $35 you can help give people, like Stellar, the Miracle of Sight. Please will you prayerfully consider sending a gift today so more people with avoidable blindness in the world’s poorest places can receive the cataract surgery they urgently need. In just 12 minutes, cataract surgery can turn someone’s darkness into light, thanks to generous people like you. Learn more… www.cbmnz.org.nz/stellar

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  • Please help transform the lives of children, like Joylin, with disabilities in the world's poorest places...

      15 January 2024
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    As we begin 2024, please be encouraged by this remarkable testimony of a little girl’s life that is being transformed in the remote Highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG). When other babies were learning to stand, walk, talk and feed themselves, Joylin barely crawled. She could not walk or speak or hold things in her hands. Nor could she see well, squinting in pain under the hot tropical sun. Please commit this New Year to your ministry of love and kindness, by sending a wonderful gift to help precious children like Joylin. Your gift will be multiplied x5 by the New Zealand Government Aid Programme. Learn more… https://bit.ly/3ooEkg6

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  • Help give the Miracle of Sight to children and adults in the world’s poorest places.

      29 November 2023
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    Thanks to generous supporters cbm-funded Outreach Clinics reach far across the mountain valleys of Nepal and across into India. Sima, a cbm field worker goes to great heights to find children with cataracts who need sight-saving surgery.

    After a simple eye check, mother Mina received some difficult news. Her eyes were beyond repair, having been damaged too badly by a doctor who, sadly, did not have enough surgical training.

    Then Sima turned to Mina’s children – and immediately saw the tell-tale white disks in the brothers’ eyes. The boys had inherited mother’s cataracts. Learn more… https://bit.ly/3ooEkg6

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  • Help wash away the misery of Neglected Tropical Diseases...

      30 October 2023
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    Good health and clean water go hand in hand. So having access to clean water from well-maintained boreholes, helps free children and adults in Nigeria from contracting Neglected Tropical Diseases such as River Blindness and Trachoma.

    Clean water helps keep people healthy. And healthy people are more productive, are able to access education, and have a far greater chance of breaking the cycle of poverty and disability. Learn more… https://bit.ly/3ooEkg6 or Learn more... cbmnz.org.nz/wash-programme

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  • Please help keep hope alive for mothers, like Halima in Nigeria, living with the life-long smell, shame and isolation of obstetric fistula!

      28 September 2023
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    Since the traumatic birth of her child three years ago, Halima from Nigeria has been hiding a secret… she has been uncontrollably leaking urine.

    She has a condition you may not have heard of, because it very rarely occurs in New Zealand. Halima’s urine is ceaselessly seeping through a small tear in the wall of her birth canal. That small, life-destroying tear is called an obstetric fistula.

    Every hour of every night, Halima must wake, get up and clean herself. Every hour! A life sentence of utter exhaustion.

    www.cbmnz.org.nz/halima

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  • Help give the miracle gift of sight in Papua New Guinea...

      24 August 2023
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    Finding people like Dam in the remote Highlands of Papua New Guinea can be challenging. Joseph, a dedicated cbm-funded field worker had to go the extra mile… after mile… to reach her mountaintop hut. But he eventually found her.

    Avoidable blindness had shrunk her world. “I stay here, go to my son’s house and walk to the little garden,” Dam told Joseph. “I used to go down to the river to wash and fetch water. Now I can’t. I feel too afraid.”

    The path to the river, and the torrent itself, are far too dangerous for someone blind with cataracts. There is a bridge, ingeniously woven from branches, but it shakes and sways as Joseph carefully and slowly inches his way across.

    One slight misstep could be tragic, but Joseph is fully determined to bring this special lady to the cbm-funded eye clinic generous people like you help support. “She wants her vision to be restored. She has been praying about it,” he says, with an inspired sense of purpose which drives him on.

    At times the track is so steep, Joseph has to carry her. In fact, it is so slippery he has to break into a run to keep from falling. His feet stay sure. He doesn’t slip. He is carrying precious Dam, who is full of hope and excitement now that her prayers are being answered!

    www.cbmnz.org.nz/dam

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  • Help create a life-changing oasis for children in the overcrowded refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh…

      31 July 2023
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    Children with disabilities in the overcrowded refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, are some of the world’s most traumatised children.

    10-year-old Yasin is deaf, but that is not the reason he cannot bring himself to talk. His voice has been stilled by the trauma of unspeakable terror and violence that saw a million people flee Myanmar, desperate for a safe haven. As a toddler, Yasin witnessed terrible crimes against his loved ones. He has never spoken of it. Or anything else. Learn more… www.cbmnz.org.nz/yasin

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  • Please help give children, like Kyle, the Miracle of Sight

      26 June 2023
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    7-year-old Kyle from the Philippines dreamed of playing basketball. But his dreams were slipping away, because he was going needlessly blind from cataracts.

    Yet there’s still hope for children like Kyle, thanks to kind-hearted people like you who give so generously to help adults and children receive the vital sight-saving cataract surgery they need. Learn more… https://bit.ly/3ooEkg6

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  • The drought in Kenya is worsening every day.

      31 May 2023
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    Please will you send an urgent gift today, to help people with disabilities, like Sofia, caught up in an evolving food crisis in Kenya.

    Sofia’s disability means she struggles to stand… but this doesn’t stop her going to work on other people’s farms as a casual labourer. Sun-up to sun-down in the burning heat. Swinging a hoe into the rock-hard ground.

    It’s thirsty work, but there is no water, the nearby river has dried up.

    Sometimes Sofia can make it down onto her knees, and scrape out a hole, and wait for some brown water to seep to the surface… and hope it doesn’t make her sick… but most days she has no choice. Learn more… https://bit.ly/3ooEkg6

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  • Help restore hope and dignity to heartbroken mothers, like Faith, in the world’s poorest places

      1 May 2023
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    This month, as we celebrate Mother’s Day, we remember a group of mothers who have lost their hope, due to the life-long smell, shame and isolation of obstetric fistula.

    Faith, in Nigeria, was one of these mothers. Every day she faced the living nightmare of constantly leaking bodily waste, due to the traumatic birth of her precious baby boy. Learn more… https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/faith/

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  • Help give the Miracle of Sight, to children like Sabina, in the world’s poorest places.

      28 March 2023
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    At just 9-years-old, Sabina’s greatest hope is to do well at school and work her way out of poverty. “Studying makes me happy,” she says. “I like to go to school, and read and write. I want to be a teacher.”

    But Sabina cannot see. Cataracts have blinded her eyes. Unable to go to school, her future has faded as badly as her vision. Learn more… https://bit.ly/3ooEkg6

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  • Help break the cycle of unbearable pain and life-long sight loss...

      1 March 2023
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    Muni from Nigeria has been held captive for decades by the Neglected Tropical Disease called River Blindness, which causes unbearable parasitic inflammation and life-long sight loss.

    Even with her own feelings of sadness, Muni says, “I’m glad no-one has to face my fate anymore.”

    Muni is glad that the sight of children and adults in her village is safe for now, and that their future is brighter, but she is terribly sad about her own situation. Learn more… https://bit.ly/3ooEkg6

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  • Light up the lives of people, like Mary, living in darkness...

      2 February 2023
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    In Zimbabwe, Mary’s vision slowly faded. Cataracts were growing in her eyes until quite suddenly Mary became totally blind.

    This was a huge blow for the loving grandmother and her two orphaned grandchildren she was trying so hard to raise. Orphaned at such a young age, her grandchildren still need schooling, but without an income to pay for their education, their future will be very bleak. Learn more… https://bit.ly/3ooEkg6

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  • Please help create a life-changing oasis, for children like Asha, in the overcrowded refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

      10 January 2023
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    In the overcrowded refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, the cbm-funded Medical Centre welcomes over 100 patients a day. One of these patients is little Asha, a beautiful teeny-weeny tot of a girl, just two-years-old. Born with a twisted foot, living in pain and exclusion because of her severe clubfoot.

    The Rohingya refugees are some of the world’s most vulnerable people – and the most disadvantaged of all are children, like Asha, with disabilities. Please help keep the doors of the cbm-funded Medical Centre open. Learn more… https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/asha/

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  • Your gift doubles when you give this Christmas…

      5 December 2022
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    Please help keep hope alive for mothers, like Chizoram in Nigeria, living with the life-long smell, shame and isolation of obstetric fistula! Learn more... https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/chizoram/

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  • Help protect children and adults in Nigeria from the agony of River Blindness.

      7 November 2022
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    Sadly, nothing can restore Akawu’s sight. He will be blind for the rest of his life. The nerves that send visual signals from his eyes have been severed forever by parasites!

    But you can help protect children and other adults in Nigeria from the agony of River Blindness, by making sure they receive their annual dose of parasite-killing medication.

    Please help support this vital year-on-year programme, by sending your River Blindness gift today so that the impact of your gift can be multiplied x7. Learn more… https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/akawu/

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  • Help support cataract surgery in Papua New Guinea

      10 October 2022
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    Huki was a man lost in blindness, depression, hunger and loneliness - brought so low by two blinding disks in his eyes. But the generosity of people like you helped provide him with sight-saving cataract surgery and gave him back his life.

    Today, let Huki’s testimony inspire you to give the miracle of sight to more people in Papua New Guinea. The New Zealand Government Aid Programme will multiply your gift x5 to help restore sight and to help train much-needed ophthalmologists. Learn more. Learn more https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/huki/

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  • Right now in Kenya, the worst drought in decades is pushing millions of people to the brink of starvation.

      7 September 2022
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    Drought has been affecting Kenya for the last 8 years. Another failed rainy season earlier this year caused the harvest to fail too. Food prices are spiralling, livestock are dying, and people are dying too. Learn more… https://bit.ly/3ooEkg6

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  • Please help children, like Ramsaran, climb their way out of poverty and disability.

      1 August 2022
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    Five-year-old Ramsaran barely leaves the family hut due to his severe clubfoot. He is unable to go to school, as his ankles are bent inwards and he cannot walk like other children.

    His mother, Bishnu Maya, says “All he does is stay at home all day, playing with mud and stones. He cries a lot when his older siblings leave for school.”

    Ramsaran’s family are so poor they cannot afford a bus trip to hospital, let alone the cost of three months of clubfoot treatment and surgery.

    Learn more… https://bit.ly/3ooEkg6

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  • Help set people free from the blinding mist of cataracts

      29 June 2022
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    Paul, from Zimbabwe, is such a kind and caring husband and grandfather. And what a hardworking man! Even in his great poverty, he spent every spare moment building a house for his family, out of handmade bricks.

    Before he could finish, though, his eyes clouded over with the blinding mist of cataracts.

    He was unable to perform his daily chores or tend to his cattle. No more whittling cooking utensils for sale at the market. His blindness was so extreme, he could not even go to the toilet alone. Humiliated, his self-esteem crumbled.

    Learn more... https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/paul

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  • Help protect children and adults from the agony of Trachoma

      16 June 2022
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    “He will wipe every tear from their eyes… for the old order of things has passed away.” – Revelation 21:4

    There has been incredible progress made to reduce the spread of Neglected Tropical Diseases in the world’s poorest places! Thanks to generous people like you, the old order of terrible suffering and blindness is passing away!

    Less than twenty years ago, the poorest 25% of the world’s population were at risk of contracting Trachoma, a highly infectious but neglected tropical disease. A quarter of the world’s population!

    But thanks to people like you, the risk has now reduced to just 2% of the world’s population! This is remarkable progress, and something to really celebrate, but Trachoma is still one of the world’s leading neglected tropical diseases that causes blindness.

    Learn more… https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/shaatu/

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  • Bring hope and dignity to women suffering from Obstetric Fistula

      16 June 2022
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    “…she forgets the anguish because of her joy…” – John 16:21

    14 years. Almost 15. That is how long bodily waste leaked uncontrollably from Mary’s body.

    Not many people are aware of this devastating and debilitating health condition which can be caused during traumatic childbirth, and there are very few doctors who know how to treat obstetric fistula in the developing world. Mary’s postnatal doctors told her she was fine. She knew she was not.

    For lack of knowledge, Mary suffered more than a decade of heart-breaking shame.

    Learn more… https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/mary/

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  • Turn blindness into sight in the remote Highlands of Papua New Guinea

      16 June 2022
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    “…Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed… Nothing will be impossible for you.” – Matthew 17:20

    Please help support cataract surgery in PNG so more people like Maria can receive the miracle of sight! Your miracle gift will be multiplied x5 by the New Zealand Government Aid Programme!

    Thanks to people like you Maria can now enjoy the light of life again. We are so grateful to people like you for supporting sight-saving cataract surgery for this beautiful daughter of God. Maria is so joyful now!

    Learn more… https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/maria/

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  • Child Sponsorship - Meet Naresh

      28 February 2022
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    Naresh’s life took a turn for the worst three years ago, when a small accident at home eventually led to the amputation of his right leg! Eleven-year-old Naresh is now far behind his peers with his education due to having to navigate the steep paths to get to the local school. His attendance is irregular, and when he does go to school he is in a class with much younger children.

    For the next year, Naresh will represent all the children being helped through Child Sponsorship. All of them live with the double disadvantage of poverty and disability, but thanks to generous regular supporters, they now have a far better future.

    Learn more… https://bit.ly/3HODSlz

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  • Why should a child with disabilities, like Liasoa, have to eat locusts to survive?

      28 February 2022
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    Please will you prayerfully consider sending a generous gift to help vulnerable children and families suffering from the ongoing effects of the famine crisis in Madagascar…

    “…Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” – Matthew 25:40

    In July last year we shared our deep concern regarding the ongoing famine crisis in Madagascar.

    Generous cbm supporters like you responded to this food crisis, and have helped cbm-funded partners to reach vulnerable children and families on the verge of starvation.

    While many have been helped, sadly for many children and their families in Madagascar, the situation is worsening day by day.

    This largely unseen famine crisis continues to grow, and with it an estimated 1.3 million people are now affected!

    Learn more… https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/liasoa/

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  • Becoming blind is devastating… and even a death sentence… for children in the world’s poorest places…

      28 February 2022
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    “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.” – Jesus, in Matthew 6:22

    By restoring the sight of children, like six-year-old Jonas, you are giving children a far brighter future: the chance to go to school, to learn a trade, to put severe poverty behind them – all through your gift towards 45 life-changing minutes of sight-restoring surgery!

    It’s because of the faithful generosity of people like you that Jonas was able to receive his miracle of sight freely. His family is so grateful because they had spent everything, just to get him to the waiting room of the Eye Unit that generous people like you support in Rwanda – the cbm-funded Kabgayi Eye Unit.

    Learn more… https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/jonas/

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  • Please help protect children, like Agnes’s sons, from the parasites of River Blindness.

      28 February 2022
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    “…these littles ones… their angels are always in the presence of my Heavenly Father…” – Jesus, in Matthew 18:10

    Agnes in Africa has two young boys. But she lives with a constant fear that we can only try to imagine. With every New Year, her two young boys face the threat of a new flood of River Blindness parasites.

    The parasites could make her sons blind, just like her father. So Agnes, in her poverty, has to constantly hope and pray that a kind and wonderful person like you will generously help supply what her family cannot afford for themselves: annual doses of parasite-killing Mectizan medication.

    Learn more… https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/adolphe/

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  • Help keep hope alive for children like Rashida, living with disabilities in the overcrowded refugee camps, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh…

      28 February 2022
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    “May the God of Hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.” – Romans 15:13

    cbm’s mission has continued this year despite the ongoing spread of COVID-19, and today we share with you how you can bring the ‘light of hope’ to children and adults living with disabilities, in the overcrowded refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

    There, among steep, high hills of packed sand, nearly a million Rohingya refugees are jammed into monsoon-soaked camps.

    The whole world watched horrified as Rohingya refugees fled for their lives from their homes in Myanmar. Their villages were burned in the violent fires of ethnic cleansing. Many were killed, injured and disabled in that rush to reach the border into Bangladesh – an Exodus for our time.

    Learn more… https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/rashida/

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  • Leaking urine for 27 years. Almost half her life!

      28 February 2022
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    Please will you prayerfully consider sending a gift to help heartbroken mothers like Olubunmi so they can be freed from the life-long smell, shame and isolation of obstetric fistula…

    Jesus said to her, “Take heart, daughter, your faith has healed you.” And the woman was healed at that moment.

    – Matthew 9:22

    Olubunmi’s name means “Gift of God”, and as her name suggests, she is a faithful woman. She lives in the huge city of Lagos, on Nigeria’s coast and is surrounded by 15 million people, but even living amongst this large number of people she has been suffering and unable to find help for the last 27 years!

    She is 60-years-old and has been uncontrollably leaking urine for nearly half her life!

    It was 1994 and Olubunmi was 33 years old when she gave birth to her youngest child, a much loved baby boy. For the first ten days, everything seemed fine, but then she started leaking urine… and she has never been dry since. Not for 27 years!

    Learn more… https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/olubunmi/

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  • Help keep more people, like Wlubnesh, S.A.F.E. from the agony of sight-stealing Trachoma!

      30 October 2021
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    Wlubnesh’s joy is overflowing. And, this is all because of generous people like you, who have helped pay for the vital eye surgery she desperately needed to set her free from sight-stealing Trachoma! No wonder she is so thankful and grateful!

    For years, Wlubnesh’s sight was slowly fading, and deep in her heart she knew that without help disaster would eventually fall on her family.

    https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/wlubnesh/

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  • Give the miracle gift of sight-saving cataract surgery to more people, like Daka, living with a disability in Papua New Guinea.

      30 October 2021
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    Losing eyesight is absolutely devastating for anyone, but for Daka living in poverty, this is a double disadvantage.

    Because of extreme poverty, PNG has heart-breaking levels of people living with the double disadvantage of poverty and disabilities. More than 1-in-10 are living with a disability. PNG has some of the worst rates of blindness in the entire world!

    https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/daka/

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  • See the powerful difference people like you are making in this photo of Hauwa and her 9-year-old nephew Danjuma.

      20 September 2021
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    Hauwa’s eyes are forever blind, but Danjuma’s eyes are safe and bright. So is his future. It is your caring heart that can help protect children like Danjuma from River Blindness.

    Today, please send your gift to keep children like Danjuma safe from Neglected Tropical Diseases. Your gift will be multiplied x7 giving eye-protecting power to save sight!

    https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/hauwa/

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  • Love has saved Kellie’s sight. Her mother’s love. Her neighbours’ love. And the loving kindness of people like you.

      20 September 2021
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    Kellie is three years old, and lives in Rwanda with her mother Marie. She has such big, beautiful eyes. How could they possibly be blinded by the misty curtain of cataracts?

    Yet that is exactly what happened when Kellie was little more than a baby. Her neighbours noticed the change. So did her mother Marie. “I tried to attract her attention by showing her a spoon. She didn’t react at all.”

    Please send your gift to help give the miracle of sight to children like Kellie in the world’s poorest places.

    https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/kellie/

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  • COVID-19 is tearing through Papua New Guinea... and people with disabilities are at the back of every queue for help.

      28 May 2021
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    There are a growing number of countries facing a significant humanitarian crisis on a scale never seen before. Countries like our near neighbour Papua New Guinea, who are now in the grip of widespread community transmission of COVID-19. This is why your help is needed today. Now, more than ever, the people we serve in PNG are in desperate need.

    https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/activity/current-appeal/

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  • Current Appeal - Obstetric Fistula

      19 May 2021
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    Maimunat’s labour was very difficult, after hours of trying, her labour just stopped. Her baby’s head was left wedged tightly in Maimunat’s birth canal. No blood could reach the thin wall of flesh separating her birth canal from her urinary tract. Finally, labour started again, and her little baby was born.

    But Maimunat did not realise that part of the blood-starved wall of her urinary tract had died, and a small hole had broken through to her birth canal. Urine started to dribble from Maimunat’s body, uncontrollably. It would not stop.

    https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/activity/current-appeal/

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  • Current Appeal - Disability Nepal

      31 March 2021
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    Suman was born into overwhelming poverty with his ankles already badly twisted. As he grew, his double clubfoot became even more severe.

    When the village children left for kindergarten, an hour’s walk away, he tried to walk with them, but it hurt too much. When he turned five, his friends went to school without him. His future was fading like the mountain mist.

    https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/activity/current-appeal/

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  • Current Appeal - River Blindness

      3 March 2021
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    “I will guide you in the way of wisdom and I will lead you in upright paths. When you walk, your steps will not be hampered, and when you run, you will not stumble.” – Proverbs 4:11-12

    Masu is an amazing man. No wonder his children want to be just like him. Except for the River Blindness parasites that completely destroyed his eyes… and his dreams.

    Despite all he has lost, Masu has built a life for himself, finding a lovely wife and having beautiful children together, then starting a group for people like him living with avoidable blindness, called the Association for Blind People. There are many in his village also needlessly blind.

    https://www.cbmnz.org.nz/activity/current-appeal/

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