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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.

  • Foundation celebrates NT Landcare Award

    A horticulture project supported by The Foundation has received major recognition, winning the Local Government Landcare Partnership Award at the 2011 NT Landcare Awards. The Landcare Awards recognise Territorians who have demonstrated excellence in caring for land and water resources.

  • ‘Fred Hollows: A Global Vision’ photo exhibition in Sydney

    Sydneysiders can see how the vision of late Australian eye surgeon, Professor Fred Hollows, has restored sight to millions of people when a new photography exhibition opens at NSW Parliament House in November. Fred Hollows: A Global Vision features the work of internationally recognised photographers such as Michael Amendolia whose series on Fred working in Vietnam during his last few months has come to symbolise the extraordinary life of one of our greatest Australians.    

  • Phan

    Special report by Brian Doolan, CEO Cambodia: Phan was eleven when his eyes “started to go funny”. Three years later he couldn't see the blackboard at school. Sight restoring surgery means he can get an education and has hope for a better future.

  • Zeineb

      Special report by Brian Doolan, CEO Eritrea: Born with cataracts in both eyes, 3-year-old Zeineb was almost totally blind. See how Fred’s work in Eritrea is continuing, as sight and hope is restored to one young girl.  

  • Langaliki

    Australia: More than anything else, respected artist Langaliki Langeliki wanted to see again so that she could paint again. And, she wanted to be able to visit her loved ones. Langaliki lives in the community of Pukatja, also known as Ernabella, 435 km south east of Alice Springs. She paints in the colourful and dramatic style for which the Ernabella region is famous.

  • Lmesinae

    Kenya: Lmesinae had cataracts in both eyes and would probably have spent the rest of his life in an institution, with no future, and no hope. Sight restoring surgery changed his life. Twelve-year-old Lmesinae lives in a remote part of Kenya, many hours drive from the nearest town. His village is a semi-permanent collection of mud huts, with a token fence to keep the animals off the rare scraps of vegetation.

  • Josephine

    Rwanda: On one catastrophic day in 1994, armed gangs swept into Josephine’s Rwandan village and she lost almost all her family. Then, five years ago, she lost her sight. There is no way to give Josephine back her family. But we were able to restore her sight.

  • Krim Yum

    Krim Yum’s cataracts had been getting worse – the faces of his children grew hazy and he found it difficult to work. By the time his two youngest children were born his sight was entirely gone. Yum had never seen their smiling faces. Yum and his wife Lake Phat are traditional musicians, eking out a living with their six children in the desperately poor Cambodian province of Kampong Thom. As his cataracts developed and Krim Yum gradually lost his sight, he was forced to abandon his livelihood as a musician and let his music students go.

  • Hare and Mina

    Hare and his sister Mina had never seen the faces of their parents. The children were eight and four years old and both of them were blind in both eyes from birth, as a result of cataracts. Hare and Mina live in the remote town of Khadga Bhanjyang in the Nuwakot District, seven hours precarious drive from Kathmandu through mountainous country in the foothills of the Himalayas.

  • Snowy

    Special report by Gabi Hollows, Founding Director Australia: Snowy McDonald is one of the last old-style stockmen. His sight had deteriorated to a cloudy ‘soup’ but, with the help of The Foundation, one simple operation changed all that.

  • Simila

    Special report by Brian Doolan, CEOKenya: Rose has never seen the face of her youngest daughter Simila – a beautiful, laughing little girl who never leaves her mother’s side.

  • Reggie

    Special report by Gabi Hollows, Founding Director Australia: The impact of even one fairly simple operation can be huge, particularly with Aboriginal patients, because of the role of the elders in the community.

  • 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.