Fred Hollows Foundation, Australia
The Fred Hollows Foundation works for a world where no one is needlessly blind and where Indigenous Australians enjoy the same health and life expectancy as other Australians.
Our organisation is inspired by Professor Fred Hollows (1929–1993). Fred was an eye doctor, a skilled surgeon of international renown and a social justice activist who championed the right of all people to high quality affordable eye care and to good health.
In 2008 alone, The Fred Hollows Foundation:
- Performed 176,472 eye operations and treatments
- Provided eye care for more than 1.3 million people in 18 countries
- Trained 5,217 eye health workers
- Supplied more than $1.5 million worth of medical equipment
- Substantially upgraded or built 29 eye health centres.
