Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania (CCBRT)

We would like to highlight the work of an amazing cbm partner organisation in East Africa.  Comprehensive Communtiy Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania (CCBRT) is located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s biggest city. The organisation and their disability hospital serve a total population of 3,000,000 million people living in Dar es Salaam and 7,000,000 in the surrounding regions of Pwani, Morogoro, Tanga, Zanzibar and Pemba.

Watch their video above to see their life altering work in maternal and child health care, obstetric fistula (VVF), club foot, cleft lip, hydrocephalus/spina bifida, prosthetics, rehabilitation, and cataracts.

CCBRT is a multifaceted organisation offering a wide range of affordable, high quality services ranging from community based rehabilitation, legal aid, and specialised preventive and curative medical services provided by the CCBRT disability hospital.

CCBRT adopts a comprehensive approach to rehabilitation is essential so there is a long lasting impact on the lives of children and adults with disabilities and HIV/Aids orphaned children. 

Working in and working with the community is crucial for the successful rehabilitation of patients. Therefore, CCBRT not only provides physical rehabilitation through medical care at the CCBRT disability hospital, it also supports patients so they can become socially and economically empowered, promotes and protects human rights and assists in the social inclusion of persons with disabilities into their local communities through CCBRT community programmes.

Check back soon for more project highlights from cbm New Zealand supported  partner organisations around the world.  Your donation helps us continue to this important work to improve the quality of life for persons with disabilities in the world's poorest countries.