Christoffel-Blindmission Christoffel-Blindmission International Christoffel-Blindmission Christian Blind Mission International
is a Founding Member of Vision 2020: The Right to Sight

Christian Blind Mission International (CBMI) is an independent aid organisation of Christians of various denominations, dedicated to serving eye patients, blind and otherwise disabled people in developing countries, regardless of nationality, race, sex or religion.

Christian Blind Mission International has its roots in Christoffel-Blindenmission (CBM) in Germany, which is named in honour of Pastor Ernst Jakob Christoffel, who laid the foundation of CBMI in 1908. Today, CBMI supports around 1000 development projects in more than 100 countries.

Key areas of Work

• Prevention and cure of blindness
• Education, rehabilitation and reintegration of persons with disabilities
• Training of national staffThe major project types
• Eye hospitals/mobile eye clinics
• Education for blind and deaf people
• Rehabilitation programmes
• Orthopaedic clinics

CBMI supports these projects financially and by seconding qualified employees such as eye doctors, nurses and experts in special education whose foremost task is to train national specialists. Helping others to help themselves is the most promising way to enable developing countries to gradually become independent of foreign aid.

Contact Details

CBM South Asia Regional Office (North) #140, “Commerce Cube”, 3rd Floor, 5th Main, Puttannachetty Road, Chamarajpet, Bangalore - 560 018. Karnataka - INDIA Phone: +91 80 2667 3635 Fax: +91 80 2667 3640 www.cbm.org

Headquarters Address
Nibelungenstrasse 124
64625 Bensheim,
Germany
Phone: +49 (62) 51 13 12 00
Fax: +49 (62) 51 13 12 49
Email:overseas@cbm-i.org
Website: http://www.cbmi.org