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In September, the Pacific Outreach Team, based at the Pacific Eye Institute in Fiji, travelled to Savai’i, Samoa to support the Samoan ophthalmologist, Dr Lucilla Ah Ching-Sefo and the Samoan eye care team, in running a surgical outreach. Though Savai’i is the largest island in Samoa, it is home to only a quarter of the […]
The team at the Madang Provincial Hospital Eye Clinic were excited to receive a visit from New Zealand’s High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea, Peter Zwart, last week. This visit demonstrates the strong partnership between New Zealand and Papua New Guinea and the shared commitment to improving access to essential eye care services. High Commissioner […]
On Thursday 12th October our teams across the Pacific celebrated World Sight Day. With a theme to #LoveYourEyes, World Sight Day is about helping people prioritise their eye health and ensuring that eye care is accessible, inclusive and affordable to everyone, everywhere. While our teams do this every day, on World Sight Day in particular, […]
The Samoa Ministry of Health (The Ministry) and The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ (The Foundation) have signed a new five-year partnership agreement, from 2023 – 2028, with the overall goal of reducing avoidable blindness and vision impairment in Samoa. Both organisations have a long-standing successful relationship spanning nearly two decades and have made significant progress […]
The Vanuatu National Eye Centre in Port Vila is celebrating reaching a zero-patient backlog for the first time in several years. This is a massive achievement for the Eye Centre, which back in 2018 had over 400 patients on its backlog waiting to receive eye surgery. The minimisation of the backlog was achieved by a Foundation-supported […]
Last month, eight eye nurses in Madang, Papua New Guinea (PNG), attended the first Advance Refraction and Low Vision (ARLV) course held in the country. Over three weeks, they gained the essential skills needed to prescribe custom-made spectacles and manage complex refractive cases. Refractive errors, which include short-sightedness (myopia), far-sightedness (hyperopia), astigmatism, and presbyopia, are […]
Lady Roslyn Morauta, former First Lady of Papua New Guinea (PNG), has been appointed as a member of The Foundation’s Board of Trustees. Her appointment comes at a time when The Foundation, in partnership with the PNG National Department of Health, is increasing its focus on supporting eye care in PNG. PNG not only has […]
The Pacific Eye Care Society (PacEYES) celebrated a significant milestone last week as they successfully hosted their biennial Pacific eye health conference in Suva, Fiji. This event marked not only the first conference since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also the 20th anniversary of PacEYES. As a key partner of PacEYES, The Fred […]
At the end of last year, an Outreach Team from Papua New Guinea (PNG) conducted a two-week outreach at the Kainantu Rural Hospital in Kainantu, a small town in the Eastern Highlands. This outreach, funded by the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP), is part of an ongoing project to strengthen eye care services in PNG. During their […]
We are thrilled to share that our annual Performance Report has won the top spot in this year’s New Zealand Charity Reporting Awards. These awards, run by Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, recognise outstanding financial reporting among registered charities. They are judged on both compliance with industry reporting standards and innovation in how we […]
International Women’s Day is celebrated annually on March 8th to recognise the achievements of women, raise awareness about discrimination, and to advocate for women’s rights. It’s a chance to talk about the diverse experiences of women, and what we can do to ensure everyone is given what they need to succeed. In keeping with that […]
The Fred Hollows Foundation in both Australia and New Zealand have warmly welcomed the Federal Government’s announcement of AUD$620 million funding for health systems in the Pacific and Southeast Asia. Announced on Thursday 23 February 2023, the Partnerships for a Healthy Region program will be delivered over the next five years (2023-27) and support five broad areas: […]
On his first day as Senior Consultant Ophthalmologist at the Port Vila Clinic, Dr Andronico Ly was warmly received by the nursing and admin staff. They gave him a traditional welcome and many encouraging words for his new role, all of them excited to work together to restore and preserve sight in Vanuatu. There is […]
Pacific eye health leaders recognise that strengthening eye health systems requires evidenced-based research informed by the Pacific context. The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ, in collaboration with the University of Auckland, aims to support the development of locally driven research through a new and ambitious research programme named the ‘State of Eye Health in the Pacific’. […]
