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  • May 2013: Quarterly Report

    In this issue: An incredible story of transformation for a boy called Jean, a profile of our work in Rwanda, and The Foundation ranked in the Top 50 non-government organisations globally.

  • 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.

  • 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.  

  • 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.

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  • 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. 

  • 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.

  • The Fred Hollows Foundation on 60 Minutes

    Channel Nine’s flagship current affairs program 60 Minutes recently featured the continuing work of Professor Fred Hollows and his Foundation - as seen through the eyes of journalist Ray Martin and Fred’s son Cam Hollows. Fred’s Vision - as seen on Channel Nine's 60 Minutes program. How do you live up to a legend? Fred Hollows gave the gift of sight to millions of people, curing the blind and teaching others how to carry on his work.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Young Fred Hollows

    Fred Hollows was born on April 9, 1929 in Dunedin, New Zealand, the second of Joseph and Clarice Hollows’ four boys. According to Fred, his mother and father were “very strong in the church”. The family atmosphere was respectable, teetotal and non-smoking, but not pious and not judgmental.