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CCBRT in the News

Monday 2011-11-14
Following a visit by a team of journalists from Belgium, several articles appeared in the Belgian press.

To read summaries of the articles in English, click here. 

Wednesday 2011-11-02
CCBRT's work to eradicate fistula reaches Guardian International on 28 October 2011

To read the article in full, follow this link. 

Wednesday 2011-10-19
Employability project features in the EU's quarterly newsletter

To read the quarterly newsletter of the EU Delegation to Tanzania, click here. 

Tuesday 2011-10-18
The new wind turbine at CCBRT was inaugurated at a press conference on 13 October an and was well covered in the media

To read about the turbine, and its pioneering production by people with disabilities, follow the link to the article in The Daily News. 

Monday 2011-10-17
Leading British newspaper, The Guardian, reports on CCBRT's work using Vodafone M-PESA during a week long visit by CCBRT's CEO, Deputy Hospital Director, and a former fistula patient.

To read the on-line article in full, click here. 

Wednesday 2011-05-25
UNFPA reports on the positive role of mobile phone technology in helping to access women living with fistula.

To read the on-line article in full, follow the link.

what´s happening


Monday, 2012-02-06
(left to right) Erwin Telemans (CEO, CCBRT); Mwamvita Makamba (Chief Officer of Marketing and Corporate Affairs, Vodacom Tanzania); Stella Nzyemba (former fistula patient at CCBRT) Vodacom Tanzania launches public campaign to raise one billion Tanzanian shillings to fight fistula

Friday, 2012-01-27
CCBRT’s CEO Erwin Telemans addressing members of the conference in Dar es Salaam. CCBRT/CBM HIV/AIDS project reaches conclusion

Thursday, 2012-01-12
CCBRT's deputy CEO Ms Haika Mawalla welcomes Norwegian minister Anne Grete Strom Erichsen. The Norwegian Minister of Health Anne Grete Strom Erichsen visited CCBRT to witness the work on maternal and newborn health

personal stories

Thursday, 2010-06-03 08:51

Little Aboubakary is in line waiting to be seen by the consultant at CCBRT Disability Hospital...

changing lives

Little Thomas was born with clubfeet. Thanks to early intervention he will now be able to walk normally like other children. To help more children like Thomas, kindly donate here.

 

CCBRT statistics In November we:
  • carried out 22 fistula surgeries
  • performed 703 eye surgeries 
  • performed 43 cleft lip surgeries
  • saw 341 patients for physiotherapy
  • manufactured 149 new devices for people with disabilities