We are very grateful to all the community, service and church groups and schools who continue to support us. There are too many to list, but we would like to make special mention of Palmerston North Boys High School and St Peter's College in Palmerston North and Lions clubs throughout New Zealand.
New Zealand Rotary clubs support The Foundation under the Rotarians Down Under Joint Partnership. Thank you to Rotary Henderson, particularly, for their recent contribution to our Fiji program. Click here to find out more about The Foundation's Rotary Down Under Joint Partnership.
The Foundation would particularly like to thank the following philanthropic trusts for their support: The David Ellison Charitable Trust, The David & Doreen Nicol Charitable Trust, H B Williams Turanga Trust, The Higgins Charitable Trust, The Hugh Green Trust, The Pacific Development & Conservation Trust, The Selwyn Robinson Trust, The Springhill Charitable Trust & Frimley Foundation, The Thanksgiving Trust and West Georgia Trust.
Of the many businesses that kindly supported The Foundation this year, we would like to make special mention of Adis International, Carat NZ, Kumfs Shoes, Solomon Airlines, Bluesoft, Crombie Lockwood, Final Solutions, Kingsland Computers, Air Vanuatu, Zest Kitchen, Finish, Optic Mix, Montana, Orbit, Qantas, North Port Events, Pacific Sun, and Alpine & Leisure.
A big thank you to Monique Bakker, and the many optometrists who promote and sell our pens. The Foundation would also like to thank Sandy Scheltema and Angela Wylie, both from The Age newspaper, who have taken wonderful photographs on The Foundation's behalf and continue to allow use of them free of charge.
The Foundation would like to acknowledge the New Zealand media for their ongoing support. Each year we receive thousands of dollars worth of free media space for our print media, television and radio community service announcements.
Donations to The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ go further thanks to the support of our corporate partners.