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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.

  • A doctor for Shangdu

    For the first time, people in China's remote Shangdu County can have their sight restored without lengthy travel, after the region acquired its first eye surgeon. Accessible surgery is possible due to the training of a local surgeon, Dr Ming Huang, with support from The Fred Hollows Foundation and Standard Chartered Bank. Dr Huang was previously a generalist but now has the specialist skills to treat complex eye conditions.

  • Australia: Work with us

    The Fred Hollows Foundation is one of Australia's most successful and well respected International Development organisations. We welcome enquiries regarding employment, however all current available positions for Australia will be listed below. We appreciate the time every applicant takes to express their interest in working at The Foundation and have included some additional information to assist you with your application.

  • Traditional healers learn to detect eye disease

    In Nepal, 379 traditional healers and other respected community members have been trained by a Foundation partner to identify blindness-causing eye conditions.  In villages, locals often seek the advice of traditional healers to cure ailments including eye diseases. The healers use forms of non-medical treatment such as potions or prayer.

  • 38,000 school children screened in Pakistan

    More than 38,000 children have been screened for debilitating eye conditions just six months into a trial targeting Pakistan’s most challenging regions.  This is the first year of a two-year trial, which will see thousands of students at primary schools screened for refractive error (the need for glasses) in the districts of Peshawar in the north and Nowshero-Feroz and Turbat in the south.

  • Ending avoidable blindness

    Fred Hollows had a vision of ending avoidable blindness. With the help of our partners and supporters, The Foundation is working to make Fred’s vision a reality. An estimated 39 million people around the world today are blind. Four out of five don't have to be.

  • Low-cost camera brings hope for early detection

    The Fred Hollows Foundation is supporting the development of a low–cost camera which takes pictures inside the human eye.  The pictures can be examined by trained eye health workers to allow early diagnosis and treatment of eye diseases which would otherwise lead to blindness. "Eye health workers around the world often need to make long, difficult journeys to examine people living in remote areas," says The Foundation's CEO Brian Doolan.