Foundation Dark & Light is a non-profit organisation for helping visually impaired and other disabled people (regardless of their race or religion) in Asia and Africa. We help them in the most sustainable way: through projects for prevention, treatment, education, vocational training and income generation, run by our local partners.

In many countries, visually or otherwise disabled persons have less access to social services and often belong to the most vulnerable groups in society.

The starting point of our work is the right of (visually) disabled persons to be included in society. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities describes their rights to education, equal access to health care, access to information, access to justice, freedom from exploitation and the right to live independently and be included in society.

Our partners organisations range from eye care providers to community organisations. We pay much attention to knowledge development and learning in collaboration with our local partners.

Dark & Light was founded in 1982 by the Dutch ophthalmologist Martien Cozijnsen.