Community based rehabilitation (CBR) advocates a comprehensive, holistic approach to rehabilitation to ensure a long lasting impact on the lives of children and adults with disabilities.

Working in, and with, the community is crucial for the successful rehabilitation of patients. CCBRT supports patients so they can become socially and economically empowered, promotes and protects human rights and assists in the social integration of people with disabilities.

Services by the community programme aim at preventing physical impairment, rehabilitating children with a disability, including children with disabilities in regular schools, addressing disabling environments and attitudes in the communities, and empowering people with disabilities to participate as equal members of society.

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CCBRT Community Programme includes CBR Dar es Salaam and CBR Kilimanjaro, based in Moshi.

In Dar es Salaam, the programme provides comprehensive rehabilitative services to approximately 1,400 children with disabilities and their families in 3 districts.

In Moshi, the programme covers the Kilimanjaro region and has extended eye units which cover Arumeru and Karatu (Arusha region), Babati and Mbulu districts (Manyara region) and Lushoto district (Tanga region). The programme includes a CBR support centre (House of Hope) and a training unit.