Amstelveen, 1 June 2021 Dear visitor, The COVID-19 pandemic has a global impact. The economic consequences are also unprecedented. All of this has not left the Asian Eye Care Association unaffected either. We are experiencing major obstacles in continuing fundraising and ophthalmic projects in Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. At this time, it no longer […]
Mrs. Nalon from the village of Sokamnya is a housewife and mother of five children. She is 67 and all but blind in one eye. Her other eye is also affected by a beginning cataract. At first she did not want to worry too much about it. So many people of her age were affected […]
You wouldn’t believe he was already 73, Mr. Sa. His entire life he has lived in the village of Yong, where he and his wife have raised six children. Mr. Sa has always been a rice and mango farmer. Even though he reached the retirement age a long time ago, he hoped he could continue […]
Together with his wife and five children, Mr. Boumma lives in Nalom, a village about 20 km from Pakse. He has a nice job at a national petrol company, a job that he had worked hard for to get and that gives him status. The last thing he wanted was lose his job because of […]
In een tijdsbestek van ongeveer zes maanden verloor meneer Did (72), gepensioneerd boer uit het dorp Muang, het zicht in zijn rechteroog. Hij maakte zich daar grote zorgen over, maar tegelijkertijd leek hij zich er ook bij neer te leggen. Staar komt immers zo vaak voor bij ouderen in zijn omgeving. Natuurlijk kun je ermee […]
As a primary school principal in the village of Nakaew and father of as many as 10 children, Mr. Guoragang has always led an active life. He is 68 now and has just had his left eye operated on. A couple of years ago, his other eye was operated on. The cataract made him stop […]
