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After successful cataract surgery, 12-year-old Jean can now go to school and play football with his friends.

Jean

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What We Do

Four out of five people who are blind don't need to be. Their condition is treatable or preventable.

Ending avoidable blindness

Fred Hollows worked tirelessly to tackle the crippling health conditions and inequities experienced by Indigenous Australians.

Improving Indigenous health

Like Fred, The Foundation values forthright honesty, integrity, humour and the willingness to have a go.

Keeping Fred's dream alive

Research & Innovation

Investing in Vision

A new model to calculate the rate at which cataract surgery should be carried out in order to eliminate cataract blindness.

Estimating the incidence of vision-reducing cataract in Africa

These two studies access the relationship between poverty and visual impairment in Kenya, the Philippines and Bangladesh.

The relationship between poverty and visual impairment

The level of vision patients have prior to cataract surgery helps in assessing cataract surgical services on the ground.

Preoperative visual acuity of people undergoing cataract surgery in Nepal

Success Stories

After successful cataract surgery, 12-year-old Jean can now go to school and play football with his friends.

Jean

After cataract surgery on both eyes, Hen Vin is now "free from the darkness and the nightmare".

Hen Vin

Thanks to our supporters, Hieu is now able to read clearly, play with his friends and help his Mum at home.

Hieu

Only recently married, Sudip had never clearly seen the face of his beautiful and loving wife.

Sudip

Sight restored, a life transformed. See the incredible moment when Joy is reunited with her mother after life-changing cataract surgery.

Joy

Lom Lun hated being a burden on his family, especially his grandson.

Lom Lun

Born with cataracts, H’Nhi's mother was worried for her daughter’s future.

H’Nhi

Phan was eleven when his eyes “started to go funny”. Three years later he couldn't see the blackboard.

Phan

Samuel loves the sound of his mother singing to him. Her songs are important to him, because this little boy was born blind.

Samuel

Find out how one sight-saving operation can prove life-changing for an entire Indigenous community.

Reggie

See how Fred’s work in Eritrea is continuing, as sight and hope is restored to one young girl.

Zeineb

Step by step, twelve-year-old Kamala led her grandfather Jokh through remote Himalayan foothills to The Foundation's outreach eye camp.

Jokh

The Foundation's 'Sight for Children' program has brought life to the eyes of this little girl.

My Linh

Gilbray's dream was to once again take the young men out and teach them how to hunt the traditional way.

Gilbray

Blindness is a death sentence in a country where no one can afford to be unproductive – everyone has to work, even children.

Kipar

A grandmother's dream comes true after five long years of blindness.

Yim

No longer condemned to living in the shadows, six-year-old Chien from Vietnam is now doing well at school and has the chance of a better future.

Chien

Blinded by cataract and no longer able to work, George and Margaret faced a difficult and uncertain future.

George and Margaret

The accepted wisdom in medical circles is that a child born with cataracts should be treated before reaching seven years of age. Malo was nine...

Malo

More than anything else, respected artist Langaliki Langeliki wanted to see again so that she could paint again.

Langaliki

Lmesinae had cataracts in both eyes and would probably have spent the rest of his life in an institution.

Lmesinae

On one catastrophic day in 1994, armed gangs swept into Josephine’s Rwandan village and she lost almost all her family.

Josephine

Krim Yum sharpens a knife used for cooking, an impossible task before his eyesight was restored.

Krim Yum

Two-year-old Sammy has already beaten the odds. Read about his remarkable story.

Sammy

Born blind in both eyes from cataract, Hare and Mina they had never seen the faces of their parents.

Hare and Mina

Snowy McDonald's sight had deteriorated to a cloudy ‘soup’ but one simple operation changed all that.

Snowy

A young boy's life is changed forever because of Fred Hollows, and a special friendship is formed with the Hollows family.

Giap

Rose has never seen the face of her daughter Simila – a beautiful, laughing little girl who never leaves her mother’s side.

Simila