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  • We can end avoidable blindness by 2020

    Will you be part of the worldwide campaign to end avoidable blindness by 2020? Right now a new Action Plan is being developed by The World Health Organization to set out the work needed to eliminate avoidable blindness by 2020. The Action Plan needs engagement and input from Member States and non-government organisations across the globe.

  • Cambodia: A lesson to save sight

    The Fred Hollows Foundation has announced a partnership with Cambodia’s Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, to create the country’s first ever eye health education plan for primary schools.

  • Foreign Minister Bob Carr a first hand witness to miracle of sight

    Newly appointed foreign minister, Bob Carr, has visited The Foundation's work at Siem Reap Eye Hospital in Cambodia, where he witnessed sight restoring cataract surgery - part of our efforts to eliminate blindness in the region. “Every Australian should be proud of what's being achieved in Cambodia - it's incredible - in just 10 years of work here The Fred Hollows Foundation has helped cut the rate of avoidable blindness from over one percent of the population to 0.38 percent,” Senator Carr said.

  • The price of sight

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

  • Government on right track to end avoidable blindness

    The Fred Hollows Foundation has welcomed the Australian Government’s naming of avoidable blindness as one of five key focus areas for its aid program following the release of AusAID’s 2010-11 Annual Report.

  • Blindness a ‘major health burden’: UN

    The fight against avoidable blindness has received additional support with heads of states and governments at a United Nations Summit recognising eye diseases as "a major health burden for countries around the globe". Eye disease is a major health burden in developing countries like Nepal. The United Nations Summit on Non Communicable Diseases was held recently in New York. It was only the second time that public health issues had been tackled at such a high level.

  • 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.

  • Vision 2020: The right to sight

    The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that without major intervention, the number of people who are blind will increase to 75 million by 2020. The Fred Hollows Foundation is a partner in the WHO’s VISION 2020 campaign.