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  • Lifesavers have got to see

    One third of lifesavers tested need glasses on Bangladesh’s most dangerous beach Shows years of neglect in eye health Foundation doubling activities in 2012 It could be any beach in Australia. At 8am, around 30 young men are preparing to patrol their beach and protect swimmers from the dangers of the sea.

  • The price of sight

    The price of sight: The global cost of eliminating avoidable blindness

  • Children from slums given the chance of a better life

    With The Foundation's support, 979 children have been screened for vision problems in Bangladesh, with 242 receiving much-needed spectacles. The children are from the slum community at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in Dhaka, and were screened as part of the Foundation-funded Childhood Blindness Prevention Program.  

  • 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.

  • Children and eye disease

    A blind child in a developing country faces a lifetime of hardship. The World Health Organization has noted that more than half of children who become blind will die within a year or two, often from the diseases which made them blind. Children who are blind suffer profound social, economic and personal hardship, and so do their families.

  • 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.

  • 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 cuisine, an estimated 525,000 people are blind. The findings came after The Fred Hollows Foundation conducted the first Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness (RAAB) in southern Sichuan.

  • Sight restored to 65 children in Vietnam

    Sixty-five children had their sight restored in central Vietnam through the Foundation-supported Sight For Children program. The surgical intensive coincided with the Vietnamese school holidays, when hundreds of children are screened for a range of eye diseases. A week of free surgeries follow. The Sight For Children program operates in Phu Yen and Binh Dinh provinces and represents a significant proportion of the childhood blindness work supported by The Foundation in Vietnam.

  • 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.

  • Biggest ever Laos campaign reaches 8,400

    The Fred Hollows Foundation has held its most successful eye screening and surgery intensive in Lao PDR – reaching over 8,400 people in just two months.  For people living with blindness in the remote villages of northern Lao PDR, it can be almost impossible to get to a medical unit for eye surgery. To meet this need, The Foundation supports outreach services that take the necessary medical staff and equipment for surgery and disease detection to the people.

  • 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.

  • Preoperative visual acuity of people undergoing cataract surgery in Nepal

    Preoperative visual acuity of people undergoing cataract surgery in rural and urban Nepal  R Gurung, M K Shrestha, A Müller, S Ruit, Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

  • Improving Indigenous health

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

  • 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.