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  • National Museum of Australia honours Fred's commitment to improving Indigenous eye health

    The National Museum of Australia in Canberra has launched an exhibit honouring Fred Hollows' commitment to improving the eye health of Indigenous Australians.

  • Time to recognise our first Australians

    With the passing of an Act of Recognition in Federal Parliament today, The Foundation is now calling on all Australians to get behind the movement to formally recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in our Constitution.

  • Support the campaign to eliminate avoidable blindness on World Sight Day

    Today is World Sight Day and The Foundation joins organisations worldwide in recognising the achievements that have been made in eliminating avoidable blindness. Ever since Fred and Gabi founded The Foundation around their dinner table in Sydney 20 years ago, it has been focused on fixing eyes and restoring sight to end avoidable blindness.

  • Fred Hollows donates equipment to National Museum of Australia

    The Fred Hollows Foundation has donated portable ophthalmology equipment to the National Museum used by the late Professor Fred Hollows to restore sight to thousands of people in Australia and overseas.

  • The Fred Hollows Foundation 20th Anniversary

    The Fred Hollows Foundation marks its 20th anniversary today. The late Fred Hollows established The Foundation on September 3, 1992.  Here are a few words from The Foundation’s Founding Director Gabi Hollows, who would like to thank all the Australians who have supported The Foundation over the past two decades: Just as The Fred Hollows Foundation has grown up over the past 20 years, so have my children, and their lives have formed yardsticks for the organisation that took their father’s name.

  • ACT students receive first ever Fred Hollows Award

    240 primary school students from across the ACT are the first ever recipients of the Fred Hollows Award. The Fred Hollows Award encourages primary students in the ACT to follow in the late humanitarian’s footsteps by making positive contributions at school and in the community. The ACT is the first territory or state in Australia to introduce the awards program into schools.

  • Prime Minister Launches Fred Hollows Anniversary Book

    Prime Minister Julia Gillard launched the new book, In Fred’s Footsteps - 20 years of restoring sight in Canberra recently. In marking 20 years of The Fred Hollows Foundation, both Ms Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott gave 'Statements of Indulgence' in Parliament acknowledging The Foundation's work and Fred's enduring legacy.

  • The Foundation joins call on PM to keep aid promise

    Gabi Hollows and The Fred Hollows Foundation's CEO, Brian Doolan, have joined other prominent Australians in calling on Prime Minister Julia Gillard to ensure next week’s budget does not break our promise on overseas aid. The Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), the peak body for aid charities, has voiced concern about the effects of Australia backing away from our promise to the world’s poorest people.

  • Meet Fred Hollows the waxwork

    Fred Hollows is one of 70 famous personalities from Australia and overseas to feature at the new Madame Tussuads museum in Sydney.   It took designers more than 800 hours and 25 kilograms of wax to create the life-sized version of Fred.   Gabi Hollows described coming face-to-face with Fred’s wax figure for the first time as "surreal".     “It really is quite unbelievable how lifelike the waxwork is,” she said.  

  • Gabi Hollows receives honorary doctorate

    One of Australia's living treasures, Gabi Hollows, has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Sydney in recognition of her tireless work in the field of blindness prevention.   It was a special day for the Hollows family, with Gabi receiving the Doctor of Health Science at a ceremony also attended by her daughter Anna Louise, who graduated with a Master of Nursing.   Gabi said it was wonderful to share the experience with her middle child.  

  • Fred Hollows featured on new postal stamp

    Australia Post is paying tribute to Professor Fred Hollows and four other remarkable physicians, who have contributed to making Australia’s health system one of the best in the world, with the release of a limited edition stamp series.   The Medical Doctors – A Lasting Legacy stamp series will be released next Tuesday (10 April) and features five doctors who are no longer with us including Professor Fred Hollows, who was Australian of the Year in 1990.

  • Foundation saddened by passing of ABC newsmen

    The Hollows family, along with staff from The Fred Hollows Foundation, are shocked and saddened by the passing of three ABC staff members, Paul Lockyer, John Bean and Gary Ticehurst. 

  • Rotary partnership

    
“At The Fred Hollows Foundation we share a deep respect for Rotary’s variety of humanitarian service projects around the world and are very proud of our partnership,” says Foundation Founding Director Gabi Hollows.

  • Keeping Fred's dream alive

    The late Professor Fred Hollows spent most of his life working to end avoidable blindness and to improve the health of Indigenous Australians. Fred and Gabi Hollows and friends set up The Fred Hollows Foundation in 1992 so his work would continue, and we take our lead from Fred.

  • President Jose Ramos-Horta and Gabi Hollows open Timor-Leste’s first National Eye Centre

    Timor-Leste President, Jose Ramos-Horta, joined Gabi Hollows to officially open the National Eye Centre in Dili.  The Centre will provide sight restoring surgery to thousands of people suffering from avoidable blindness and is the first of its kind in Timor-Leste. “I hope that working together, in the next few years to come, the backlog of cataracts is eliminated,” President Ramos-Horta said.

  • A message from Gabi Hollows

    Fred was many things to many people – a husband, a father, a friend, a skilled ophthalmologist and, for a few politicians and bureaucrats, an irritating thorn in their side. Above all else he was a humanitarian, which made him a terrific doctor. He truly believed it was the role of a doctor to serve, to help those in need.

  • Farewell Fred

    “Fred was many things to many people – a husband, a father, a friend, a skilled ophthalmologist and for a few politicians and bureaucrats, an irritating thorn in their side. But above all else he was a humanitarian, which made him a terrific doctor. He truly believed it was the role of a doctor to serve, to help those in need,” says Gabi  Hollows.

  • The Foundation

    The Fred Hollows Foundation is a lean and independent, non-profit, secular organisation that was started by Fred and Gabi Hollows and friends the year before he died. The Foundation has worked in over 40 countries around the world and with Indigenous communities in remote parts of Australia, and continues to be inspired by Fred’s lifelong endeavour to end avoidable blindness and improve Indigenous health.

  • Fred and Gabi

    Gabi and Fred first met during her training in orthoptics in the early 1970s. By the mid 1970s, they were working together at the Prince of Wales Hospital where he was head of the ophthalmology department and she was the senior orthoptist. Fred was preparing for the National Trachoma and Eye Health Program, which needed a range of medical health professionals, and Fred asked Gabi if she would come on the road with him.

  • Gilbray

    Special report by Gabi Hollows, Founding DirectorAustralia: Gilbray Alum is a real charmer, 70 years old, and a true gentleman; warm, softly spoken and with a quiet, wise way about him.  

  • Sydney Uni salutes Gabi Hollows

    The University of Sydney has paid tribute to former student Gabi Hollows for her work in eye health and development in Australia and overseas. At a ceremony attended by past and current students, Gabi was presented with the university's annual Health Science Alumni Award for Community Achievement. It highlights the impact of her work alongside her late husband Fred and her dedication to furthering his vision through The Foundation.

  • Giap

    In 1992 Tran Van Giap was seven years old. The little boy had extremely poor vision in one eye. Giap’s father, a Vietnamese war veteran who worked as a farmer in one of the country's poorest rural areas, took him to Hanoi by train to seek help.

  • Board of Directors

    The Board is responsible for the broad strategic directions and key policies of The Fred Hollows Foundation, and for the overall governance and accountability of the organisation. The Board meets quarterly. The majority of the Directors are elected by the Members of The Foundation, with the remainder being appointed by the Board.

  • Gabi Hollows, Founding Director

    Gabi Hollows has been a driving force behind The Fred Hollows Foundation since she helped set it up in 1992. She is the public face of The Foundation, a founding director, and patron of The Fred Hollows Foundation Miracle Club.

  • Gabi honours The Foundation's inspirational women

    Gabi Hollows has used International Women’s Day to honour three women who are continuing Fred’s dream of bringing sight to the blind and improving health outcomes for Indigenous Australians. Speaking at a breakfast function hosted by the Qantas Foundation, Gabi first paid homage to The Foundation’s country manager for Pakistan, Dr Rubina Gillani, for being a woman who has achieved great things for her people under extremely difficult circumstances.

  • 'In Fred's Footsteps' exhibition opens in QLD

    table needs to be formatted Touring regional and metropolitan libraries in QLD over the next two years, the exhibition celebrates the life and achievements of the late Fred Hollows, and features The Foundation's continuing work to eliminate avoidable blindness. Chermside Library is the first in Queensland to host a touring exhibition that celebrates the life and achievements of the late Professor Fred Hollows, and the continuing work of The Fred Hollows Foundation.