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Charity dinner
A charity dinner was held in Rotterdam on Monday 16 January 2023. This annual event, organised by the Medical Faculty Association of Rotterdam (MFVR), raised money for our foundation this year. After [...]
The first ADOA-plus meeting
After four years since the foundation's inception, the time had come: the first ADOA-plus day. This meeting was fully funded by the institutional subsidy we received. The meeting took place at Hotel [...]
Movie premiere
September 28, it was finally here. The long-awaited documentary 'WAZIG - Leven met ADOA' (Life with ADOA) finally appeared online. The documentary was produced by Nina Warink and performed by Laurens Smit. [...]
Daniëlle talks about her passion for cooking and baking
Daniëlle has ADOA. Although her vision is, to put it mildly, not optimal; cooking and baking are her passionate hobbies. Ever since I was a child, there has been one thing I have [...]
Too visually impaired for a normal driving license, but still able to drive
For people with a visual impairment, driving a car is not as straightforward as it is for most people. Being visually impaired does not always mean that obtaining a driving license is impossible, [...]
Contributing to the quality of life for people with visual impairments
Interview with Ruth van Nispen. As of the 1st of June 2021, Ruth has been appointed professor of 'Visual Functioning & Health' at the Department of Ophthalmology of Amsterdam UMC. This new permanent [...]
Cure ADOA Foundation App
The Cure ADOA Foundation, in collaboration with Bundeling, is creating an app for the ADOA community. The app is available for fellow sufferers and their loved ones, but also for staff, volunteers, doctors and [...]
Realization – Saskia Veenstra
As a child I never felt different from other children. My mother was visually impaired, and around the age of six it became known that I was also visually impaired. In my younger [...]
Going to school with some extra guidance – Henk Benjamins
Note: this article is about guidance in the Netherlands. Do you know agencies in your own country that provide similar care? Please let us know by emailing us at kim@adoa.eu and we [...]
My view of the world – René van Gerwen
3 July 2021, René van Gerwen As a small child, I probably had 30-40 % vision; it is probably because my file disappeared thanks to arguments between eye doctors. Now, at 64, [...]
‘Amount of research gives hope for treatment’
Ralph is 48 years old and lives in Utrecht. He has three children, one of whom has already left home. Ralph works at Schiphol Airport as an air traffic controller and in [...]
The story of Elina
When I was in 7th grade I noticed that my eyesight was worse than that of all my classmates, I could not read the IWB and was bothered by the bright light [...]