The Fred Hollows Foundation
The OPTALERT team is proud to support the Fred Hollows Foundation with a regular donation to help restore sight to people living with avoidable blindness across the world.
OPTALERT’s support will be used to help continue The Fred Hollows Foundation work with communities around the world and help them achieve a world where no one is needlessly blind.
The Fred Hollows Foundation is inspired by work of the late Professor Fred Hollows, whose vision was for a world where no one is needlessly blind.
Working to continue Fred’s vision, The Fred Hollows Foundation in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, have come together to form a global network to increase their collective impact in eradicating avoidable blindness around the world.
With the help of supporters like OPTALERT, the Fred Hollows Foundation works in over twenty countries world-wide with hope to build on their record of restoring sight to well over one million people.
Did you know:
- Sight can be restored for as little as $25 AUD in some developing countries.
- 3 out of 4 people in the developing world are living with avoidable blindness due to lack of access to simple treatment and routine surgery.
- On average, a person living with blindness in the developing world will die within four years of going blind.
- There is a 10 year life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
- Regular monthly gifts just like what OPTALERT has committed too allows the Fred Hollows Foundation to plan their work more effectively and in the long term, reducing their costs even further.
For more information or to make a donation to the Fred Hollows Foundation, please visit www.hollows.org.