The Fred Hollows Foundation

We've just got to make that case thoughtfully, make it strategically, make it clearly to the right people within governments.

And we think that that's a very powerful mechanism for almost a top-down, setting national government policy priority agendas around eye health, something that is hugely catalytic over and above the work that Fred Hollows Foundation and many other partners in the sector are working on with partners on the ground.

Yeah, and I do want to get into the role of philanthropy in private sector.

But Amanda, I'd love for you to kind of take us to a community or a program where you've seen what access to eye care changes in practice.

So they have, they work at a community level, which is incredibly important.

They then have primary, secondary, and then they have specialist care as well, including an eye bank for transplants.

So this has been built over a number of years in partnership with the Fred Hollows Foundation.

Dr. Awid, the founder there, is an incredible man who's developed all of this.

So I think the plane will be flying high, but hopefully raising awareness for the entire sector.

Uh, my good friends at Sightsavers and CBM and Cure Blindness and Fred Hollows Foundation-

Hollows

... they're doing excellent work.

Lens factories now exist in many countries around the world, transforming the access to cataract surgery for millions of people every year.

Quote from Fred Hollow's story from his early years to his work overseas, the Fred Hollows Foundation.

The Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern became an important example of that model.

It was established by First Nations activists who wanted healthcare that was accessible, culturally appropriate, big underline there, and under First Nations control.

Yeah.

Two hundreds of thousands of Africans.

In 1994, the Fred Hollows Foundation opened intraocular lens factories in Eritrea and Nepal, which are now self-funding.

It's Eritrea.

Because if you grew up with television in the 90s, you saw this commercial playing all the time.

And it was soliciting donations for a little institution called the Fred Hollows Foundation.

As Fred believed in bringing sight to people, we want to continue that today.

And to say that this one man did not revolutionize cataract surgery, democratize it, make it cheap, and get it out there into the world, to even say a statement like that is undercutting the brilliant work that Fred Hollows did.

And one more quote.

If you had asked me as a 20-year-old what my accomplishments would be, I would never in my wildest dreams have envisaged all of this.

Quote from the Fred Hollows story, Fred Hollows Foundation.

After graduating in medicine, Hollows developed an interest in ophthalmology.

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Good, excellent.

Top quality charity, that.