Our Annual Report 2009 is now available online. If you want to receive the Annual Report in hardcopy, please send your request and full add...Read more.

Looking for: Graduate with a disability and ambition! Offer: Traineeship/ study at a development NGO in the Netherlands Dark & Light is a Christi...Read more.

Addressing the challenges of childhood cataract Strategies for implementing services for children for the WHO – recommended 10 million paediatri...Read more.

Dark & Light would like to get in touch with international funds, foundations or trust funds that are interested in funding a new project regardin...Read more.

Check out the latest issue of the Community Eye Health Journal. Volume 23 | Issue 72 | March 2010 (PDF, 7.24Mb) Theme: When your eye patient is ...Read more.

With support of Dark & Light (and others) a conference was held in Myanmar about the Plan of Action for Persons with Disabilities. In two events ...Read more.

Dark & Light, in cooperation with the Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development (ECDD), has organised a training for 4 East-African organisa...Read more.

Dark & Light’s vision on an inclusive society, our strategy to promote the participation of people with a disability in society and our pote...Read more.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are targets set by the international community at the Millennium Summit in 2000 to overcome poverty, exclusion...Read more.

The week of March 8-14 is World Glaucoma Week. It aims to raise awareness of glaucoma and will emphasise the fact that half of people currently suffer...Read more.

Dr. Muhit from Bangladesh has given an interview at ATN Bangla TV Channel on World Sight Day. Dr. M A Muhit has invented Key Informant Method (KIM) t...Read more.

Dark & Light have intensified the collaboration with Light for the World Austria. The collaboration has started in 2005 when both organisations ha...Read more.

These are exciting weeks for Steven Holcomb, pilot of the USA 4-mens bob. Will he grab the Olympic gold? With already the World Cup in the pocket, &qu...Read more.

Check out the latest issue of the Community Eye Health Journal. Volume 22 | Issue 71 | December 2009 (PDF, 4.0Mb) Theme: Corneal blindness...Read more.

Faith Comes By Hearing, the world's foremost Audio Bible ministry, recently released 14 Audio Drama New Testament recordings. The following Audio New ...Read more.

Several thousand residents of Jos, in central Nigeria, are displaced after their homes burned in deadly sectarian clashes, according to residents and ...Read more.

On behalf of all students and staff of BMIS, we take the opportunity of this special time of the year to thank you for all support to us in 2009. We ...Read more.

“A meeting hosted by WIPO on December 7, 2009 with a number of United Nations (UN) specialised agencies in Geneva concluded with agreement on th...Read more.

Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities 3 December 2009 E...Read more.

The theme of this year’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities is “making the Millennium Development Goals disability-inclusive...Read more.

The Daily Star in Bangladesh published an article about blind using the computer at our Baptist Mission Integrated School. ...Read more.

This is a film from a VSO partner in Ghana. The whole video is about 30 minutes long so it is cut in 4 parts. It's an interesting and first hand analy...Read more.

Dark & Light Blind Care has published a new study called: Visions on Mainstreaming Disability in Development. It was written by Vera Hendriks,...Read more.

The Daily Star Bangladeshi one of the famouse daily newspaper published CSF hospital news and dr. Muhits work on World Sight Day. Please see the below...Read more.

General information Dark & Light in the Netherlands and Light for the World in Austria are two independent development organisations which support...Read more.

The theme of World Sight Day 2009 (WSD09) is Gender & Eye Health – equal access to care, recognising that two-thirds of blind people worldwi...Read more.

Greetings from Nepal. This is my pleasure to inform you that the newly opened Low Vision Resource Center at Nepal Association for the Welfare of the ...Read more.

Azithromycin, the antibiotic widely used in Africa to treat trachoma also seems to help prevent Ethiopian children from dying of other diseases. An As...Read more.

We are holding a volunteer camp from the 25th September to the 8th of October in Sirajganj Bangladesh and are looking for additional volunteers to par...Read more.

Commemorating the 50th anniversary, partner organisation Bhakti Luhur has presented a Certificate of Appreciation to Dark & Light Blind Care. ...Read more.

Starting from today, we have more detailed project information available on our website. Please visit the Projects page....Read more.

A recent WHO study published in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases shows that Mectizan mass treatment for onchocerciasis is no l...Read more.

We are indeed grateful to Dark & Light for immediately responding to our appeal for help following the damage to BMIS due to the heavy rainfall. T...Read more.

An interesting article was put on the BBC website yesterday. A new type of medicated eye drop may be able to reverse symptoms of glaucoma, an Italian ...Read more.

An urgent appeal for help On the night of 28 July 2009, the capital city Bangladesh, Dhaka experienced heavy rainfall for continuous six hours upto t...Read more.

Check out the latest issue of the Community Eye Health Journal. Volume 22 | Issue 70 | June 2009 (PDF, 3.8Mb) Theme: Gender and eye health...Read more.

Greetings from BMIS. Yesterday heavy rain effected our school very seriously. School's main boundary wall already fallen down. The water entered the s...Read more.

Our annual report 2008 and the financial statements 2008 are now available online. DownloadsAnnual report 2008 (PDF, 8,75Mb)Financial statements ...Read more.

The EO Youth Day is a big event in The Netherlands. On June 13, around 32,000 youngsters came to Arnhem to listen to christian artists and speakers. ...Read more.

We have added a paper to our website about The Importance of Technical and Vocational Training for Poverty Reduction. Please follow this link for mor...Read more.

Dark & Light has released a policy paper on HIV/Aids. Please follow this link to all policy papers. ...Read more.

Due to the escalating war situation in Peshawar (Pakistan), some project activities of our partner CHEF have been postponed. Fortunately, the CHEF st...Read more.

The Community Eye Health Journal has done a review on our child cataract manual. Quote: "Dark & Light Blind Care (Netherlands) must be congr...Read more.

It's my pleasure to intimate you that Mr. Bimal Poudyal, Focal Person of National Low Vision Program is going to receive a highly prestigious award i....Read more.

If Supreme Court guidelines are obeyed, the forthcoming Lok Sabha election will be a historic one. For the first time the poll process will be disable...Read more.

Prince Abdul Aziz Bin Ahmed Al Saud Prevention of Blindness Award This award is presented to an ophthalmologist who has substantially contributed to ...Read more.

Awarding gold medal to DR. M A Muhit for his great contribution on the field of research of childhood eye diseases on behalf of the Ophthalmological S...Read more.

Check out the latest issue of the Community Eye Health Journal. Volume 22 | Issue 69 | March 2009 (PDF, 2.2Mb) Theme: 8th General assembly of IA...Read more.

Dark & Light has issued a short leaflet about our work. You can download it here....Read more.

Check out the latest issue of the Community Eye Health Journal. Volume 21 | Issue 68 | December 2008 (PDF, 1.6Mb) Theme: Improving eye care...Read more.

A message from one of our partners: CDD from Bangladesh. Dear All, Greetings from Centre for Disability in Development (CDD)! There will be a tal...Read more.

A message from one of our partners: CDD from Bangladesh. Dear all,In recognition of the linguistic identity of the Deaf community, the government...Read more.

Dark & Light has developed a program to improve the food security of ultra poor people in Gaibanda in Bangladesh, together with The Leprosy Missio...Read more.

In cooperation with our partner KCCO from Tanzania, a new manual has been released. It is the Childhood cataract manual. It presents a holistic appro...Read more.

UNICEF has released a child-friendly version of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, to help educate children on the rights o...Read more.

Hundreds of millions of people with disabilities do not have access to the opportunities and resources to fulfil their basic human needs. Together the...Read more.