The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ

We train local doctors, nurses and health care workers and give them the technology they need to recognise, diagnose, refer, and treat eye problems in their communities. We build new clinics and come up with innovative ways to reach people in need, like our mobile eye clinic in Fiji. We undertake research to improve our understanding of avoidable blindness, and use our findings to bring about much-needed change. We're overseen by our Trust Board and Executive Director Andrew Bell leads day-to-day operations. But our team of dedicated and passionate eye care professionals in the Pacific are the real heroes. Following years of training at the Pacific Eye Institute in Fiji, they use their time and energy to restore sight in their own communities. Our end goal is to give them the reins and put ourselves out a job. We're independent, not-for-profit, politically unaligned and secular. Professor Fred Hollows holding an intraocular lens used in cataract surgery