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CELEBRATING 25 YEARS |

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Almost 300,000 eye operations and treatments were donors and staff, of organisations, patients, communities and
conducted by Tilganga with the support of The Foundation in transformed lives.
2016, many of which were performed at remote community
outreach screening and microsurgical eye camps. While it is important to reflect upon our achievements and
history, we are all too aware that there are 32.4 million people
Australia, Vietnam, Eritrea and Nepal were the birthplaces of in the world who are blind. Most of them don’t need to be.
The Foundation’s work. What we learned there formed the
basis for our global work. Fred Hollows said, “Don’t ever do half a job. Don’t ever
compromise. Slog away until you get the job done.”
Today, The Fred Hollows Foundation is active in more than
25 countries. The tapestry’s threads have spread to become For 25 years The Fred Hollows Foundation has done just that.
a detailed and inspiring image of our work around the world. And we will continue as long as there are people with avoidable
But behind this lies a network of people and partnerships, of blindness.

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