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Check out our audio and video content here.  You can see film footage of our work in action, including two reports from Mike McRoberts (TV3) on our work in Timor-Leste, a Barbara Dreaver (TV ONE) report on findings from our eye health survey in Fiji and a story from TV3's Campbell Live on an outreach to Fiji.  Also listen to an exclusive interview with our leading eye surgeon in the Pacific, Dr John Szetu, on Radio New Zealand's Nine to Noon. Find out more

The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ has welcomed a record number of students (51) from nine countries to its three training programs in Suva, Madang and Dili this year.  Read about the new courses offered and where the students come from here...

Hollows NZ's 2009 Fiji Eye Health Survey has revealed high rates of diabetes among 40+ year olds in Fiji.  Read our media release here , or view a report by TV ONE's Barbara Dreaver

Hollows NZ, with NZAID and AusAID, is funding a new eye care and training facility at the Colonial War Memorial (CWM) Hospital in Suva that will permit a 50% increase in the number of patients treated for eye conditions there.  Read more

The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ is currently conducting population-based eye health surveys in Timor-Leste and Fiji to determine the prevalence of blindness and vision impairment in each country.  Find out more

In February this year, Hollows NZ launched a pilot Healthy Eyes programme promoting simple steps to improve eye health at eight schools in Aileu, a mountainous region in the centre of Timor-Leste. Find out more

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. Find out more

We’d like to say a very big thank you to Ganesh and Lyndi Cherian, whose $18,500 winning bid for John Key's armcast in February 2009 will fund two surgical outreaches to the Solomon Islands this year.  We asked Ganesh what prompted him to support The Foundation.  Read the interview

John Key’s pain is the Solomon Islands’ gain, as proceeds from the sale of the Prime Minister’s arm cast will pay for many Solomon Islanders to see again, according to The Fred Hollows Foundation New Zealand. Find out more

Prime Minister John Key is supporting our work in the Solomon Islands by auctioning his armcast on TradeMe.  We've been working in the Solomon Islands since 2002 and have trained three eye doctors and seven eye nurses in the last three years.  Find out more

Nine eye nurses and two eye doctors graduated from the Pacific Eye Institute (PEI) in Suva in December 2008.  They now return to clinics and hospitals in Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu.  Read more

Lynmore Primary School in Rotorua was one of many schools throughout New Zealand that last year raised funds for The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ (FHFNZ).  We’d like to say a big thank you to Lynmore School for their hard work and generous support, and include details of their efforts below. Read more

The year to 30 June 2008 was a year of many achievements for The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ across our three main areas of activity – education, workforce support, and research and advocacy. Read more

Rugby legend and Pacific leader Michael Jones recently travelled to Vanuatu to see our sight restoring work in action. What he saw inspired and amazed him. Read more

It took Aven an extraordinary amount of courage to complete the three-day journey to reach an eye camp run by The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ in the Solomon Islands.  She walked blind and barefoot through dense bush and crossed dangerous rivers to achieve her dream of seeing again. Read more

This month the first graduates from Timor-Leste's new eye training course will return to their districts to start treating thousands of blind and vision impaired people.  Read more

Wanganui orthoptist, Ellen Booth, has been lending her hand to help improve the sight of hundreds of visually impaired in Fiji. Putting her specialist eye care skills to work, Ellen dispensed glasses to over 300 people in just two weeks.  Read more

Over 300 patients had cataract surgery and hundreds more received other eye care treatment during a two week blitz in a remote area of  Papua New Guinea. Read more

Working in partnership with local NGO Fo Naroman Timor-Leste (FNTL), The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ-FNTL program has dispensed 10,000 spectacles in some of the poorest regions of Timor-Leste in the past two years.   Read more

The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ welcomes the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities that came to force on 3 May 2008. The ratification guarantees the rights of 650 million people worldwide who have disabilities, including blind and visually impaired.  Read more

The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ is pleased to announce the inaugural Sir Edmund Hillary Pacific Eye Scholarship, named in memory of our late patron.  Read more

Michael Jones is putting his weight behind The Foundation's campaign to raise funds to fight avoidable blindness in the Pacific region, a campaign long supported by The Foundation's late patron, Sir Edmund Hillary.  Read more

Carmel Williams, Executive Director of The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ discusses the the need for more local eye doctors and nurses to restore sight in the Pacific. As featured in The New Zealand Herald. Read more

After a wait of decades, more than 400 people in Fiji's old capital, Levuka- Ovalau, have finally received sight saving treatment. Read more

Sunday 10th February, marks the 15th anniversary of Fred's death. Starting as just one kiwi's dream, The Foundation set up in his name has become an international organisation whose work changes lives, systems and thinking. Read more

The death of Sir Edmund Hillary is a sad loss for The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ, and all of New Zealand. Read more

A group of Fred Hollows Foundation NZ trained Pacific eye care professionals will soon begin their dreams of improving eye care in the Pacific. Read more

Gabi Hollows visited New Zealand for a whirlwind visit this week.  She was in Auckland to attend a screening of the film ‘Light of the Himalaya' at the Raye Freedman Arts Centre, organised by The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ for its supporters to mark The Foundation's 15th anniversary. Read more

October 11th is World Sight Day, a day when blindness prevention agencies come together to raise awareness for recognition of the worldwide problem of avoidable blindness. This year's theme is Blindness and Childhood. Read more about World Sight Day and The Foundation's work with schools in the Pacific.

The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ has opened a new Pacific regional eye care training facility in Fiji.  The groundbreaking new institute is the first of its kind in the Pacific.  Read more 

New Zealand TV personality Mary Lambie recently travelled to Vanuatu to help promote the work of The Fred Hollows Foundation New Zealand. Read more

In January 2007, reporter Tristram Clayton visited The Foundation's program in Vanuatu and documented the difficulties of living with blindness in a developing Pacific country. Read more