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• 80,000 children screened in Pakistan

  The Foundation is working to ensure debilitating eye conditions are detected and treated early so children are not disadvantaged during their school years due to poor vision.

• May 2012: Quarterly Report

  In this issue: Joy returns to one Kenyan family, 2011 highlights from the field, a special report from Pakistan, and Giap '20 years on' by journalist Miranda Devine.

• Orphan children helped in Pakistan

  The Fred Hollows Foundation has supported an eye screening camp for hundreds of orphan children in Islamabad, Pakistan.

• Childhood blindness in Pakistan

  Big steps are being taken in eliminating childhood blindness in Pakistan through The Fred Hollows Foundation's support of the work of Mayo Eye Hospital in Lahore.

• Help for child victims of Afghan war

  The Fred Hollows Foundation is helping provide emergency eye care to children of Afghanistan injured during February's storm of protests over the recent burning of the Koran at a US army base. Shabnam, a 15-year-old girl from Kabul, lost the sight in her right eye when hit by a stray bullet from a passing protester while hanging washing on her roof.  

• New eye unit brings hope in Pakistan

  A new eye unit built by The Fred Hollows Foundation is allowing doctors to reach out to more children and adults in one of the world’s most challenging regions, and to treat their eye conditions before it is too late. The facility is in northern Pakistan and boosts existing services at Hayatabad Medical Complex, a large, busy hospital in the city of Peshawar. The unit’s focus is helping children with serious eye conditions and detecting and treating diabetic retinopathy in adults before the damage becomes irreversible.

• 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.

• A happy childhood for Haris

  Asghar Ali was so fearful of his son Haris being ridiculed by others due to his lazy left eye that he kept him away from school. Asghar's fears were not unfounded. He once caught his neighbour calling Haris "Kana", meaning ‘one eyed person'. Although he stood up for his son against anyone who would label him with such hurtful names, Asghar knew he could not protect him from stigmatisation for the rest of his life.

• Pakistan

  Across Pakistan nearly one in ten people are visually impaired, with more than two million people blind in both eyes. The Foundation has a strong partnership with the Government of Pakistan and is working in all four provinces of the country. Overview In Pakistan, hundreds of people go blind every day, often from preventable causes like cataract. People in Western countries have ready access to cataract surgery, but in Pakistan most people don’t.

• Coming full circle

  Following an encounter with The Foundation in Pakistan, Mohammad Khan was inspired to forge a career helping others. In this article by AusAID’s Phil Lynch, see how Mohammad has come full circle to now work for The Foundation, after completing development studies in Australia. “God is merciful – but for three seconds he was angry”. A quote attributed to an unnamed local Pakistani man in October 2005 after the South Asia earthquake.

• Pakistan floods update

  The Fred Hollows Foundation has for the first time assessed damage to medical equipment and infrastructure caused by the devastating floods in Pakistan. Nowshera is one of 12 districts in Pakistan where The Foundation works to be heavily impacted by the floods. It is the first to be visited since flood waters receded.   The Foundation’s Program Manager for Pakistan, Dr Rubina Gillani, said that her visit was a very emotional one, with the District Headquarter eye unit badly damaged.