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Anniversary trip to Nepal, November 2024
Eye Care will be celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2024! We also celebrate this with a donor trip to Nepal. This 18-day trip gives you the wonderful opportunity to see our projects up close. To experience for yourself how much effect your donations, and the work of Eye Care Foundation. Of course, we will visit some of the highlights of this fascinating country and see the contours of the Himalayas and Everest as the sun rises.
The donor trip to Tanzania last September/October...
Empowering Tanzanian eye healthcare: Traditional Healers
Traditional African Healers are people who practice traditional African medicine, often known as African traditional medicine or indigenous healing. They are important members of many African communities, offering healthcare, spiritual direction, and counseling. Traditional healing practices in Africa vary by location and can involve the use of herbs, divination, ceremonies, and other methods to diagnose and treat a variety of physical and spiritual problems. Herbalists, Diviners, Spiritual Healers, Witch doctors, Bone Setters, Midwives and Birth Attendants are some of the most common forms...
Empowering Tanzanian Healthcare: ECF’s Long-term Vision
Explore ECF’s transformative journey in Tanzania, where eye care was a critical need. From training programs to project expansions, discover how ECF has revolutionized eye health in the region.
The first eye camp in Morogoro, 2018
MOROGORO
Morogoro is a region in the southeast of Tanzania. The region is approximately twice the size of the Netherlands and has a population of around 2.2 million. Residents of Morogoro often have to walk long distances to reach the district or regional hospitals. These hospitals, however, do not have eye care services due to a chronic lack of eye care,...
Stories of Hope: Erick from Tanzania
At the early age of 12, a young boy named Erick Malekela started on a journey that would ultimately change the course of his life in the heart of Mlimba district council. Erick, who is currently in standard five, has been dealing with a serious and ongoing difficulty for the past three years: his eyesight.
Erick’s journey started some years ago on a normal trip to fetch water. In an unfortunate turn of events, a rubber projectile impaired his left eye, causing extreme pain. However, due to their lack of knowledge, the family sought treatment locally, hoping that time would heal his wounds....
A huge success, Dam tot Damloop 2023!
Salutation! Many thanks to Tramedico and 51 runners for collecting more than 20,000 euros. Because of you, Traditional Healers in Morogoro, Tanzania, will receive proper training in eye care, enabling them to treat the eyes of hundreds of individuals in isolated areas.
Our CEO – Bjorn Stenvers also ran 16km this day! Thank you Bjorn, for your dedication to ECF and to vulnerable people in Tanzania.
