Our livelihood programmes aim to remove the barriers that limit persons with disabilities from participating in society and help them meet their full potential. We support income improvements for persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups. We help them enhance their respect and standing in the community on an equal basis in all areas of life.
We develop and execute locally relevant on-farm, off-farm, and non-farm livelihood systems. These programmes are unique in their approach; not just through value addition, positive environmental impacts, and sustainable livelihood system, but persons with disabilities enter into leadership and decision-making roles; they become entrepreneurs in their communities. It brings together persons with and without disabilities working as one inclusive team. Local solutions are developed to help farmers and entrepreneurs replicate the idea further. Persons with disabilities become change-makers, contributing to the community in a genuinely empowering model.
We build sustainable, inclusive community organisations (such as Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs), Inclusive Self-help Groups (ISHGs), Inclusive Farmer Producer Organisations (IFPOs), and Inclusive cooperatives.

“Lost my leg but not my independence; I am living a respectable life”
Surendra
Bicycle Shop Owner, Gorakhpur, UP
CBM strives to promote inclusive education addressing above components through our unique programme, learning together playing together
Programme Milestones

Our Impact

Persons received access to livelihood services

Persons received vocational training

Persons obtained employment

Persons obtained financial services
Case Stories

Stepping into a brighter future
Every day over 67,000 children are born in India. But for nearly 150 of them born with clubfoot, their journey is far from simple. Nivedhan, a bright 8th-grader,…
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Breaking Barriers in Rural Communities through Development of Individual Enterprises
Shobha was let go from work as a daily wage labourer for being deaf. Now she runs a dairy with her mother-in-law. “People with disabilities should be able…
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Defying All Odds with her Fighting Spirit
When a community mobiliser from CBM India arrived at Asha’s house in Anekal, Rural Bengaluru, they met 7-year-old Tanvi, a child with Cerebral Palsy Spastic Diplegia who could…
Read MoreInclusive livelihood implies more than income generation for persons with disabilities; it concerns their very independence and dignity.