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2UE Radio Appeal supports The Foundation
Thanks to everyone who supported the 2UE Radio Appeal!
On the day of the appeal (22nd December) presenters Stuart Bocking, Tim Webster, Tracey Spicer, Prue MacSween and John Stanley encouraged 2UE...
Foundation supports food relief for Ethiopia
The Fred Hollows Foundation is contributing to a food relief program for people in two regions of Ethiopia as the country’s hunger crisis worsens.
Over three months, 22,740 people have received...
525,000 blind in southern Sichuan
One of China’s most populous regions has a blindness rate twice as high as other parts of the country, a new study reveals.
In the southern part of Sichuan Province, which is famed for its spicy...
New eye unit brings hope in Pakistan
A new eye unit built by The Fred Hollows Foundation is allowing doctors to reach out to more children and adults in one of the world’s most challenging regions, and to treat their eye conditions...
Latest treatment could soon be affordable for all
Director of the Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology in Nepal, Dr Sanduk Ruit, has told The Himalayan Times that research is underway with a Swiss company which may bring state-of-the-art eye...
Cooperation not intervention: call for a new direction
The Fred Hollows Foundation has joined other NGOs in support of a statement regarding a cooperative approach to Indigenous health. A statement and list of supporting agencies are below:...
Government on right track to end avoidable blindness
The Fred Hollows Foundation has welcomed the Australian Government’s naming of avoidable blindness as one of five key focus areas for its aid program following the release of AusAID’s 2010-11...
Surgeries rise in eastern Bangladesh
Surgical training provided by The Fred Hollows Foundation has resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of people having their sight restored in the district of Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh.
Dr...
Sight restored to 190 in Cambodia
A five-day eye camp in the Kampong Chen Cheung commune of Stong District, Cambodia, has restored sight to over 190 people.
Around 500 people lined up recently to have their eyes checked by an...
Blind man completes epic Sydney swim
Blind marathon swimmer, James Pittar, has swum from Malabar to Bondi during Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2011 to raise funds for The Fred Hollows Foundation’s sight restoring work around the globe...
Quarterly Reports
Videos
Kipar
When we first met with Kipar, our team was stunned by how dirty he was. Then we realised. The reason Kipar was grubby isn’t because he's not loved. He is, deeply. Born with bilateral cataracts,...
Jet - Shine on for Fred Hollows
A video tribute (full version) to Australian eye surgeon Fred Hollows, featuring music by Jet. Thank you to Jet and all The Fred Hollows Foundation's supporters for helping Fred's work to shine on.
Zeineb
Fred Hollows spent the last years of his life working to restore sight in Eritrea, Africa. It was a country close to Fred's heart and The Fred Hollows Foundation is proud to be carrying on his work...
Restoring sight and dignity
In recognition of International Women's Day 2011, The Foundation released this video showing how blindness affects people in the developing world. Young girls in particular often have to sacrifice...
Mama
This is the story of a South African grandmother named Mama. She was blind in both eyes for many years because she could not afford the operation to have her sight restored. Through the work of The...
Trachoma
Trachoma is a disease that blinds one person every 15 minutes. But it can be stopped. Our goal is to eliminate Trachoma by 2020. It's an achievable goal and organisations around the world are...
Samuel
Samuel loves the sound of his mother singing to him. Her songs are important to him, because this little boy was born blind. His mother's voice is like a precious gift cutting through the darkness...
Fred Hollows
The Foundation's CEO Brian Doolan, Dr Sanduk Ruit and others share their thoughts on Fred Hollows the man, his work and his continuing legacy. Thanks to Fred's pioneering efforts tackling avoidable...
Photos
H’Nhi
When five-year-old H'Nhi was just a baby learning to crawl, her mother noticed something was wrong. “There was something white inside her eyes,” she remembers. H’Nhi’s mother was afraid, and...
Fred Hollows: A global vision
'Fred Hollows: A Global Vision' - a November 2011 exhibition at NSW Parliament House which featured the work of internationally recognised photographers such as Michael Amendolia whose series on Fred working...
Yim
Yim Noang has been blind for five long years. "My dearest wish," she says wistfully, "is to see my grandchildren." After sight restoring surgery made possible by The Fred Hollows Foundation, a grandmother's...
My Linh
Born with cataracts in both eyes, by Year 2 My Linh's sight was fading and was now unable to see the blackboard properly. Not wanting to cause trouble, My Linh tried to learn by reading the book of her...
Jokh
Sixty-six year old Jokh and his granddaughter, Kamala, stumbled for two long, hot summer days through remote Himalayan foothills so that he could see again. See how The Foundation’s outreach eye clinic in...
Reggie
Seventy-two-year-old Reggie Uluru is a traditional owner of the Uluru area. Over the years, the eyelid on one of his eyes had turned inwards and begun to scratch and scar the cornea, causing blindness. Elders...
Phan
Phan was eleven when his eyes “started to go funny”. Three years later he couldn't see the blackboard at school. Phan lives with his mother in a small village two hours drive from Phnom Penh, in Cambodia....
Langaliki
More than anything else, respected artist Langaliki Langeliki wanted to see again. She wanted to pursue her art, and be able to leave the aged care home in which she lives, to visit her loved ones. The state...
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