About Eye Care Foundation
Eye Care Foundation was founded to offer better eye care from The Netherlands to other countries. Countries where access to eye care was hardly present or very limited. We started by sending Dutch ophthalmology teams to these areas. In the long term, there were more conducive solutions. Therefore, we changed our focus to strengthening the local capacity by offering educational training, improving the infrastructure, building eye clinics and donating ophthalmology equipment. Now, we work on sustainable eye care.
History
Eye Care Foundation was founded when Oogzorg Wereldwijd and Mekong Eye Doctors merged in 2008. These organisations had similar goals, making collaboration more efficient and effective. Oogzorg Wereldwijd (1984) was founded by a Dutch ophthalmologist who encountered people across the globe who suffered preventable or even curable blindness. A Dutch biochemist started Mekong Eye Doctors (1993) after conducting eye research in Thailand.
Certified Charity
Eye Care Foundation has been recognised as a charity by the CBF (CBF-Erkend Goed Doel), and we have been closely reviewed. Eye Care Foundation is registered as an Algemeen Nut Beogende Instelling (ANBI). The ANBI-status is a condition to be eligible for fiscal advantages. ANBI is not a certification. For charities, a recognition arraignment goes further than the ANBI prerequisites. This recognition is given by the Centraal Bureau Fondsenwerving (CBF), the independent supervisor of charities in The Netherlands. The CBF checks if charities meet the strict quality demands.
Donations make our work possible
Our activities for good eye care are possible through active funding. Eye Care Foundation runs entirely on donations, large and small. Donations make our work possible; without them, these regions have no opportunities for good eye care. We use our donations directly for all our activities.
Our activities are completely clear
Our focus is on improving, preventing and curing. This is what we do:
Together for better vision
