Achievements

• Performed 176,472 eye operations and treatments – up from 143,759 in 2007
• Provided eye care for over 1.3 million people
• Trained 5,217 eye health workers - up from 3,284 in 2007
  
• Supplied over $1.5 million worth of essential medical equipment
• Developed new paediatric ophthalmology programs in places such as Pakistan, Vietnam and Cambodia
• Carried out successful eye programs in the Northern Territory, and new initiatives to 'close the gap' in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
• Reached into new areas such as Afghanistan, Laos and Rwanda
• Upgraded 29 eye health facilities.

• Restored sight to over 1,000,000 people
• Pioneered modern techniques of cataract surgery
• Reduced cost of cataract surgery to as little as $25 in some developing countries
• Set up independent and commercially successful intraocular lens (IOL) laboratories in Nepal and Eritrea
• The laboratories export to more than 50 countries and have produced over 3 million sight-saving lenses
• Price of IOLs reduced from over $100 to just $8
• Worked in over 30 countries worldwide, with new programs recently launched in places such as North Korea and Rwanda
• 2008 winner of the Givewell Good Giving Australian Charity Award 'Best Practice not-for-profit’
• Winner of the National Award for Excellence in Community Business Partnerships in recognition of the successful partnership between The Foundation, Woolworths and the Wugularr community for the Community Stores Program
• Foundation friend and partner, Dr Sanduk Ruit, appointed an honorary Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for ground-breaking work overcoming avoidable blindness
• Worked with partners to develop new technology for the developing world, delivering innovative solutions through specifically designed lathes, lasers and microscopes

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