Messages from Our Supporters

A big thank you to those who have remembered The Foundation in their Will. Below are messages from some of our supporters: 

"I see it as a payback - giving back what I have got out of life. Although I have been a supporter for some time it all came back to me when I had my cataracts done. It reopened the world for me. I didn't realise how beautiful the world is - full of lovely shapes and colours. For the cost of my two cataract operations The Fred Hollows Foundation can restore sight to about 250 rural patients in a remote eye clinic. That's incredible."

Another woman spoke of her husband's passion when she sent his bequest:

"He couldn't see clearly to live his life - he hopes that you can put this to good use so others can see the beauty he couldn't."

Both my wife Cherie and I have a belief that when life has been good to us it is our responsibility to put something back at the end of it that will help those less fortunate.

So we searched for an organisation that could meet our requirements - one that runs ‘mean and lean' on overheads and does the maximum ‘world of good' to help people in difficult situations around the world who most need assistance. 

Having worn glasses since childhood, and suffered from cataracts at around the age of 70, I was acutely aware of the miracle that operations for cataracts created.  

We had also seen that in third world countries cataracts very often struck breadwinners and family carers at a very much younger age, resulting in dreadful hardships, not only for them but for the whole family. 

We believe that it would be hard to find a more worthwhile cause than to restore the sight of people who are going blind and would not otherwise have any way of being cured from this. 

The other aspect of The Fred Hollows Foundation that we found especially significant is their ‘hands on' approach. They teach local personnel how to perform such operations themselves instead of sending eye surgeons to do them. It comes back to the old saying ‘Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish, and you feed him for life'. 

We feel that there is no better way of saying ‘thank you' than to put The Fred Hollows Foundation into our Wills.

Walter Glaser