Audio and Visual

View Barbara Dreaver's exclusive report on the alarming prevalence of diabetes in Fiji, discovered during a Hollows NZ Eye Health Survey conducted in Fiji late 2009.

Read our media release about the diabetes component of the 2009 Fiji Eye Health Survey here

In mid-November 2009, Mike McRoberts visited our program in Timor-Leste.  He attended a vision screening and refraction outreach in the remote mountain district of Maubisse, and reported on our collaboration with the New Zealand Defence Force to build a temporary operating theatre from a portable container to help restore sight to the 2,000 East Timorese going blind from cataract each year. .

TV ONE's Close UP reporter, Gill Higgins, joined a Fred Hollows Foundation NZ sight-restoring trip to the remote island of Makira in the Solomon's.

Watch the story of Aven, who walked for three days to have her sight restored, and meet The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ trained eye doctors responsible for the sight-restoring work.  Watch now.

Deonisia was blinded by cataracts for nine years until her sight was restored by The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ's eye team during a surgical out reach trip.

Watch the video of Deonisia's life changing surgery as featured on Campbell Live.  Watch now

Dr John Szetu is the Director of the Foundation's regional training centre in eye care, the Pacific Eye Institute. A Solomon Islander and the Pacific's most highly regarded ophthalmologist, John is respected as leader in eye care throughout the Pacific region. 

Click here to listen to Dr Szetu's interview with Kathryn Ryan on Nine To Noon.

Watch Dr Szetu's interview on TV1 News.  Learn more about our work and see footage of our eye teams in action.  Watch now.