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  • 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 outreach surgical team consisting of an ophthalmologist, a resident and three nurses.  Mr Chhun Chat, the commune chief, said that every year The Fred Hollows Foundation’s eye camp brings hope, smiles and laughter to his villages. “As far as I remember it has been the fifth eye camp conducted in my commune,” he says.

  • Cambodia: A lesson to save sight

    The Fred Hollows Foundation has announced a partnership with Cambodia’s Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, to create the country’s first ever eye health education plan for primary schools.

  • Foreign Minister Bob Carr a first hand witness to miracle of sight

    Newly appointed foreign minister, Bob Carr, has visited The Foundation's work at Siem Reap Eye Hospital in Cambodia, where he witnessed sight restoring cataract surgery - part of our efforts to eliminate blindness in the region. “Every Australian should be proud of what's being achieved in Cambodia - it's incredible - in just 10 years of work here The Fred Hollows Foundation has helped cut the rate of avoidable blindness from over one percent of the population to 0.38 percent,” Senator Carr said.

  • February 2012: Quarterly Report

    In this issue: Lom Lun and his grandson now have a better future thanks to a new eye hospital in Cambodia, The Foundation expands its work in Burundi, Kenya and China.

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  • Lom Lun

    Special report by Brian Doolan, CEOCambodia: A man can see and his grandson can have a normal childhood thanks to a new eye hospital in Cambodia constructed with the help of our supporters and the Australian Government.

  • Phan

    Special report by Brian Doolan, CEO Cambodia: Phan was eleven when his eyes “started to go funny”. Three years later he couldn't see the blackboard at school. Sight restoring surgery means he can get an education and has hope for a better future.

  • Cambodian outreach clinic restores sight to 257

    Sight has been restored to 257 people living in one of Cambodia’s poorest regions.  An outreach eye clinic was recently held in Kampong Speu Province, in the country's south-west. A team of six medical staff worked intensively at Kampong Speu Eye Unit to screen the eyes of almost 600 people over five days. Of these, 173 people were diagnosed with cataract and 84 with other blindness causing conditions. All received sight-restoring surgery.

  • Cambodian doctor restores sight to 189

    In just five days, one Cambodian eye surgeon and his team screened 1,136 people and restored sight to 189 patients in Phnom Penh.  Cambodians travelled from more than 15 provinces to be tested and treated for a range of eye diseases at the first free surgical intensive offered by the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital, a new partner of The Fred Hollows Foundation.

  • Ghum’s gamble pays off

    A blind Cambodian woman who borrowed her year’s salary to reach an eye hospital built by The Fred Hollows Foundation has had her sight restored.  Ghum Morn, 48, is from a poor village in Steng Trang province in the country's north. Her family makes a difficult living growing rice in the rugged mountains near the Lao PDR border. The mother-of-three had been completely blinded by cataracts for three years when she learnt a new hospital in the city of Siem Reap was offering free eye surgery funded by The Foundation.

  • Cambodia

    Over 90% of blindness in Cambodia is avoidable – most of it the result of cataracts – but a large number of Cambodians live in poverty and struggle to afford the relatively simple and inexpensive cataract operation they need to have their sight restored. Overview Under the leadership of Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge took control of Cambodia in 1975. Within weeks of taking power, they had forcibly relocated the population of Phnom Penh and other urban areas into the countryside of Cambodia.

  • Yim

    Special report by Brian Doolan, CEO More than anything, Yim Noang longed to see the face of her granddaughter, Sun Doaun. Of all her grandchildren, it was Sun who most often missed school to lead her around their village and watch out for her.

  • Krim Yum

    Krim Yum’s cataracts had been getting worse – the faces of his children grew hazy and he found it difficult to work. By the time his two youngest children were born his sight was entirely gone. Yum had never seen their smiling faces. Yum and his wife Lake Phat are traditional musicians, eking out a living with their six children in the desperately poor Cambodian province of Kampong Thom. As his cataracts developed and Krim Yum gradually lost his sight, he was forced to abandon his livelihood as a musician and let his music students go.

  • New eye hospital opens in Cambodia

    Three million people in and around the Cambodian city of Siem Reap will benefit from a new eye hospital that opened this week - built through the support of The Fred Hollows Foundation and the Australian Government. Speaking at the opening ceremony for Siem Reap Regional Hospital, Foundation Board member Sarah Elliott said the new hospital shows what can be done when people who want to create a better future work together.

  • Theara beats floods to have her sight restored

    Seven-year-old Theara had little hope of a normal childhood – she had been almost completely blind in both eyes since birth. This little Cambodian girl is one of 302 patients who received free surgery as part of a recent 10-day eye intensive. The surgeries were supported by The Foundation, through the Australian Government’s Avoidable Blindness Initiative (ABI).

  • World Sight Day: Final hurdle for Cambodia’s first female eye surgeon

    A young Cambodian woman is only months from graduating as her country’s first female eye surgeon, thanks to training provided by The Fred Hollows Foundation. Dr Ouk Soleaphy, 26, is breaking down traditional barriers to become an ophthalmologist in Cambodia. She is currently preparing to complete her final exams after three years of specialised study. “In Cambodia, many hospitals lack medical doctors specialised in ophthalmology,” said Dr Soleaphy.

  • 3 million Cambodians to get better eye care

    Eye health services will improve for around 3 million Cambodians living alongside one of the ancient wonders of the world, Angkor Wat - with the commencement of construction of the Siem Reap Regional Eye Hospital. The new eye hospital will serve as a base to provide the highest quality eye care services to people living in a region famous for its ancient temples, in north eastern Cambodia.

  • Sight restored in Cambodia

    More than 200 people have received surgery at a four day outreach clinic conducted in Prey Veng Province, Cambodia. The clinic, conducted at the Camchay Mear Referral Hospital, screened 675 local villagers and treated 155 people with cataract, restoring sight and offering hope and opportunity. The Foundation’s Country Manager in Cambodia, Sith Sam Ath, said the patients were overjoyed to see again.