Join the evening networking session to celebrate the launch of the IAPB European Advocacy Network, organized in collaboration with the Eye Care Foundation.
Vandaag overhandigde ik mijn onderzoeksresultaat aan Burgemeester Femke Halsema op de verjaardag van Amsterdam (750 jaar).
'1275 - 1345 - 2025. Het Mirakel van Amsterdam, de betekenis voor de stad.’
Na de dienst door Jan Hendriks, bisschop Haarlem-Amsterdam
Grants to study make impact to local communities & our children programs at Eye Care Foundation
Vietnamese Dr. Kha Tu studied her PhD with a grant in the Netherlands & is now responsible for all children services of her remote region. She was first & youngest PhD of the region
Globally active Eye Care Foundation has a focus on early detection by screening school children. Last year ECF screened over 100,000 children in the far remote province of Ca Mau, Vietnam 🇻🇳 More: baocamau.vn/cho-doi-mat-sa…
Saurya Airlines plane has crashed at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) in Kathmandu while taking off for Pokhara from Kathmandu.
Eye Care Foundation family express our deepest condolences to the people of Nepal on the loss of lives in Saurya air plane crash in Kathmandu.
Women Making a Difference in Eye Care
Globally, 1.1 billion people live with vision loss, including blindness. Women and girls make up 55% of these people.
On International Women's Day, we celebrate amazing women who spend their lives improving eye care for others.
Let's celebrate Louis Braille's birthday who was blind, invented the Braille system @ 15 years old. His raised dot system helped blind people read and write on their own. Happy birthday to the person who made a difference in the world!
#blindness#iapb#eyecarefoundation#who
Our new publication: "A little history of eye care by Winsky: the Art Edition"!
We are very happy to have presented the first copy by Björn Stenvers (CEO) to Gundy Van Dijk Head of Education and Interpretation at the Van Gogh Museum.
#eyecarefoundation#vangoghmuseum
We are excited to start on a path of appreciation and celebration on World Sight Day 2023, as we celebrate a significant milestone: 7 million patients helped, and lives transformed by the impact of vision restoration.
#ECF7millionpatients#WorldSightDay2023#eyecarefoundation
Happy World Sight Day 2023. Today is World Sight Day, but for the Eye Care Foundation, every day is an opportunity to love and care for your eyes, no matter where you are or what type of work you do.
#loveyoureyes#loveyoureyesatwork#IAPB
Happy #WorldSightDay!
Today, we celebrate how #LoveYourEyes at Work resonates around the world and that workplaces are more productive and safer when eye care is accessible, available and affordable to all employees everywhere.
More at brnw.ch/21wDr3Y
Eye Care needs to be put more urgent on the agenda
Why?
- 1.1 billion people live with vision loss.
- 90% of vision loss is preventable or treatable.
- Vision loss will rise to 1.7 billion people by 2050
Many of them are in fare remote areas.
#eyecarefoundation#who@iapb#ecf