Two New Zealand volunteers join our team in Timor-Leste in May. They will be sharing their vast experience in public health and community development with local Timorese eye health managers
  • PEI graduate Dr Nola Pikacha in OT
    Training programs expand following glowing review

    Blind and vision impaired people in the Pacific, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste will benefit from increased government funding to The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ

  • Prime Minister John Key auctioned his armcast in support of The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ
    Thanks to Ganesh and Lyndi Cherian, we're funding two surgical outreaches to the Solomon Islands this year

    We asked Ganesh what prompted him to support our work and bid for the Prime Minister's arm cast when it was auctioned on TradeMe in February

  • photo courtesy of Lucy Lee/FHFNZ
    "Eat your greens!" Timorese children urged

    Hollows NZ's Healthy Eyes program is encouraging good eye care practice among school children in Timor-Leste

Professor Fred Hollows examining the eye of seven year old Tran Van Giap at the Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology (VNIO) in Hanoi (Vietnam) in 1992. Photo courtesy of www.michaelamendolia.com.
"I believe that the basic attribute of mankind is to look after each other"