HE CAME FROM NEW ZEALAND WITH A VISION OF HELPING - MEET FRED HOLLOWS

Born with hands to heal, Fred Hollows was a true humanitarian

Professor Fred Hollows
A hero in anyone's eyes

Professor Fred Hollows was a prestigious Ophthalmologist. He was  born in Dunedin, New Zealand and after attending Otago University to study medicine he began to visualise a world without blindness. His work took him all over the world, to developing countries in need of his able hands and his passionate attitude towards establishing low cost eye healthcare.

Fred was a humanitarian, touched by the drug of internal humanness he was greatly recognised for his work of “polishing lenses which brought sight to the blind in the poorest of countries…”

He knew no boundaries when it came to challenging governments to listen and to provide funding for the Indigenous Australians who were dying 10 years earlier than their European cousins. He was a great man with a tenacious spirit, something that has lived on in the Fred Hollows Foundation.

With the establishment of collaboration and partnerships the Fred Hollows Foundation has been able to continue its work to help the Indigenous by empowering them and providing them with a sense of self-worth.

And into the future; as long as there is poverty and visual impairment there will always be a Professor Frederick Hollows, OM, and his Foundation.

Visit www.hollows.org.au for more information on Fred Hollows and the Foundation

http://catherineroberts27.blogspot.com.au - Read my Opinion Piece on Fred Hollows and my backgrounder on The Hollows Foundation on ending blindness in Indigenous Australians.