In the often poverty-stricken Asian countries, blindness leads to a humanitarian catastrophe. Asia has 16 million blind persons, a number which will have doubled in 2020. AEC In Asia
We train doctors and nurses, provide extra eye care on location with eye surgeries and donate the means enabling the health centers to carry on by themselves. About our methods
AEC deploys Dutch medical teams. During three-week missions, they visit local hospitals in order to provide intensive ophthalmic training to their 'own' doctors and nurses. Blog
Amstelveen, 1 June 2021 Dear visitor, The COVID-19 pandemic has a global impact. The economic consequences are also unprecedented. All of thi
Mrs. Nalon from the village of Sokamnya is a housewife and mother of five children. She is 67 and all but blind
You wouldn’t believe he was already 73, Mr. Sa. His entire life he has lived in the village of Yong, where he
Together with his wife and five children, Mr. Boumma lives in Nalom, a village about 20 km from Pakse. He has a
In een tijdsbestek van ongeveer zes maanden verloor meneer Did (72), gepensioneerd boer uit het dorp Muang, het zicht in zijn rechteroog.
As a primary school principal in the village of Nakaew and father of as many as 10 children, Mr. Guoragang has alway
Mr. Onhthong lives in Xaisawaang, a village just outside Pakse. Although he is 65 and his pension is drawing near, it made
Mr. Ngoead, who has lived in the village of Vangtao all his life, had more or less reconciled himself to his handicap.
Mrs. Mone from the village of More has worked in the fields her whole life, and she also takes care of the
The life of Mrs. Obma’s, from Haykham, had always been fully absorbed by her housekeeping. As a mother of eight children, she
