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Fred Hollows Staff Leave for Tonga Outreach...
Staff from The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ leave Auckland tomorrow morning, heading to Tonga with a team from TVNZ’s 20/20 programme. The purpose of the trip is to document a week of powerful, life-...
May 9, 2013 |
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Governments support vital sight-restoring...
The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ is delighted to receive new funding from the New Zealand Aid Programme and AusAID to help fund their vital sight-restoring work in the Pacific.
Over the next three...
March 26, 2013 |
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Surgical team heads to remote Bougainville
With the autonomous region of Bougainville added to the list of locations visited by The Fred Hollows Foundation’s surgical outreach team, and a Foundation-trained eye nurse now based in Buka,...
March 8, 2013 |
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New graduate to lead community eye care in...
As the first ever graduate of the Master in Community Eye Care qualification, Losana Vola will be a champion of eye care in her own community of Lautoka, Fiji, where there is a desperate shortage of...
March 4, 2013 |
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Foundation welcomes new research...
The Fred Hollows Foundation welcomes new research released by the University of Otago today which draws attention to the diabetes epidemic and its devastating consequences, including eye disease and...
March 1, 2013 |
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Legacy of Kiwi hero Fred Hollows lives on
The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ's Executive Director, Andrew Bell, talks about the life and legacy of the late Professor Fred Hollows.
Twenty years ago we lost a Kiwi hero. Born and educated in...
February 10, 2013 |
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Seeing again video launched
The Fred Hollows Foundation has today launched a new video showing a patient's journey back to sight at www.seeingagain.org.nz
The video, made with the support of Affinity ID and Flying Fish, starts...
September 4, 2012 |
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Surgical teams reach hundreds in Solomons
Last week saw one of The Foundation’s busiest outreaches, with hundreds of patients travelling from remote areas and queuing up to see our doctors and nurses from the Pacific Eye Institute (a...
August 20, 2012 |
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Sight-restoring operations doubled in 2011
The Foundation achieved amazing results in 2011 - huge achievements given the numerous challenges we face working in the Pacific, Papua New Guinea, and Timor Leste.
In 2011, The Foundation...
August 6, 2012 |
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Mongol Derby: Racing to restore sight
In the name of restoring sight, 25 year old Kiwi, Sam Wyborn, is heading all the way to Mongolia to compete in the Mongol Derby: the longest and toughest horse race in the world.
The race is a 1,...
July 25, 2012 |
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Newsletter
Autumn 2013: Newsletter
In this issue: how your support is changing lives in the Solomon Islands, Fred's work in Vietnam, The Foundation's new research fellow, and how important eyesight is to Kiwis.
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Summer 2012: Newsletter
In this issue: We look at 20 years of Fred's foundation, Roger Dethlef's memories of Fred, a long-term supporter shares Fred's vision, and 'The Price of Sight: The global cost of eliminating...
Autumn 2012: Newsletter
In this issue: Ten years of restoring sight in Vanuatu, a Kiwi innovation that will restore sight to hundreds more, and a report from celebrity chef Peta Mathias on her experience Ba, Fiji.
Videos
Adam's story
Produced by Topic Photography Ltd
Directed and edited by Mindy Yeh
In September 2011, photographer James Ensing-Trussell and videographer Mindy Yeh from Topic travelled with a team of Pacific eye...
Published on August 6, 2012 |
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The Miracle of Sight
Watch as one woman has her sight restored after nine years of blindness. Deonisia was cataract blind for nine years before she had her sight restored by The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ. Sight...
Published on June 14, 2012 |
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Fred's legacy lives on in Timor-Leste
The Fred Hollows Foundation New Zealand and its partners officially opened a National Eye Centre in Dili on Thursday July 28th 2011. The Centre, which will provide high quality eye care and sight-...
Published on December 11, 2012 |
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Peta Mathias experiences sight-restoring work in Fiji
Specsavers' ambassador and celebrity chef Peta Mathias attended a Fred Hollows Foundation surgical outreach in Ba, Fiji, in March where 102 patients had their sight restored in just four days. Here...
Published on February 7, 2013 |
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Photos
Solomon Islands surgical outreach August 2012
This gallery documents the The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ's surgical outreach in Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands.
More than 300 patients came to the outreach clinic hoping to have their sight...
Published on August 13, 2012 |
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Francis
Just one day before dangerous floodwaters rose around her home in Fiji, Francis regained her sight. For the first time in six years, she was able to move around independently.
Photos: James-Ensing Trussell |...
Published on August 6, 2012 |
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Adam
Volunteer photographer, James Ensing-Trussell of Topic Photography, witnesses the result of a young father's sight-restoring surgery during a surgical outreach to Vanuatu.
Photos: James Ensing-Trussell |...
Published on August 4, 2012 |
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Tackling diabetes eye disease in Fiji
The Fred Hollows Foundation is opening a new diabetes eye clinic in Suva, Fiji. The purpose built clinic will provide vital screening and laser treatment for people with diabetes-related eye disease.
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Published on June 21, 2012 |
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Jean
Jean Kisiani, 56, from Dobu Island in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, was bilaterally blind from cataract.
A fiercely independent grandmother, she now has to rely on her daughter, Flora, for her daily...
Published on June 5, 2012 |
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Senmily
Senmily Noma is 57 and lives in Fatavi Village in KaloKalo on West Fergusson Island, a day and night's travel by boat from Alotau. When she was 55, her eyes began to trouble her. At first it was as if there...
Published on June 5, 2012 |
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