The Fred Hollows Foundation

70AED can restore sight, help us end avoidable blindness



The Fred Hollows Foundation is an international development organization working in more than 25 countries to end avoidable blindness. The Foundation has restored sight to more than 3 million people around the world and has supported programs to deliver more than 100 million doses of antibiotics for trachoma.

9 out of 10 people who are blind or vision impaired don’t need to be.

The Foundation’s vision is for a world where no person is needlessly blind or vision impaired.

It continues the work of the late Professor Fred Hollows, a globally-renowned eye surgeon who believed everyone should have access to high-quality affordable eye care, no matter where they live.

The Foundation works in more than 25 countries throughout Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, South East Asia, Australia and the Pacific.

Our priority is to strengthen health systems and work with communities to improve their own eye health. We do this through life-changing surgeries and treatments, training doctors and health workers, generating new ideas, and pushing for change at all levels – from local to global.

Currently 43 million people around the world are blind and 1.1 billion live with some form of vision loss. About 90 per cent of those affected live in low-income and middle-income countries.

However, we can fix the problem. More than 90 per cent of vision loss is preventable or treatable and we can address it using existing highly cost-effective interventions.

Together we can end avoidable blindness.