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COLLINS’

STORY GOVERNANCE | SECTION NAME |

When we met Collins in 2013 he
was six, but wasn’t going to school
because he had bilateral cataracts.
Instead he spent each day sitting in
the sun as his dad worked breaking
rocks at a quarry.

The Foundation restored his
sight, and last year we returned
to Baringo to see Collins at school.
His teacher tells us he is doing
well. “He is trying to catch up with
the others in his class. Before the
year ends, I know he will be one
of the top students,” his teacher
said. Collins is a determined
10-year-old with big plans for the
future. “I want to finish school
and get a
good job,”
he said. “I
must build
a good
house
for my
father.”

Hollows Foundation (UK), The Fred Hollows Foundation „ A member of the Steering Committee for the Close
Kenya, The Fred Hollows Foundation (HK) Limited and the the Gap campaign, which aims to overcome the difference
two Fred Hollows Intraocular Lens (IOL) Laboratories in in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-
Eritrea and Nepal. Indigenous Australians
„ A member of the Campaign for Australian Aid
In addition, The Foundation is: „ A member of Diversity Council Australia, a not-for-profit
workplace diversity advisor to businesses in Australia
„ In Official Relations with the World Health Organization „ A signatory and supporter of the Make Poverty History
„ A member of the Board of Trustees of the International campaign
Agency for the Prevention of Blindness „ A signatory to the National Anti-Racism Strategy
„ A partner in ‘VISION 2020: The Right to Sight’, a global „ In Strategic Organisational Partnerships with Sightsavers,
partnership between the IAPB and the World Health Helen Keller International and the International Diabetes
Organization with the goal of eliminating avoidable Federation
blindness by the year 2020 „ FHF UK is a member of BOND, the UK membership body
„ A member and current Chair of the International Coalition for non-governmental organisations working in international
for Trachoma Control development
„ A member of Vision 2020 Australia, the national peak body
for eye health and vision care organisations MONITORING AND EVALUATION
„ A member and the prime contract holder of the Vision
2020 Australia Global Consortium, an unincorporated The Fred Hollows Foundation has rigorous monitoring
joint venture of six Australian eye health agencies that processes that assist us to deliver effective and sustainable
work internationally programs, including conducting periodic evaluations to
„ A member of the Australian Council for International examine the quality and impact of projects. In 2016, The
Development, the national peak body of international Foundation conducted 15 evaluations across 11 countries,
development NGOs and a signatory to its Code of the findings of which are used to inform implementation
Conduct and design of future projects. The Foundation also invests
„ A member of the Neglected Tropical Disease NGO in operational research that generates evidence to inform
Network (NNN) ourselves and our partners on best practice in eye care.
In 2016, 17 operational research studies were completed.