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Sight restored. A life transformed.

Joy

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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

Report: The price of sight

The price of sight

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

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

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

Yim

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

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

Simila

Kamala had been a keen student, but after losing her sight she had to give up her studies.

Kamala

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

Snowy

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

Sammy

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

Josephine

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

Lmesinae

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

Langaliki