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9 out of 10 people who are blind don’t need to be; their condition is preventable or treatable.

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The Fred Hollows Humanity Awards are now open!

Do you know a young person, aged 9 to 11, who shows compassion, kindness and integrity? Nominate them to become our next Junior Ambassador.

Thanks to our generous partners, as Junior Ambassador they’ll receive $1,000 to implement an initiative in their school or community, plus $5,000 to allocate towards a Fred Hollows Foundation NZ programme in the Pacific.

From a single surgery to the whole eye care system.

Here is how we are working towards ending avoidable blindness and vision impairment in the Pacific.
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Countries in the Pacific have unacceptably high rates of blindness and vision impairment.

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of vision loss in the Pacific is preventable of treatable. Yet today, those treatments can take months to be accessed, if they can be accessed at all.

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people in the Pacific experience blindness. For marginalised communities such as women and people with disabilities, the challenge of avoidable blindness is even higher.

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people live with vision impairment in the Pacific region. Without change, projections show that vision loss will increase by 55% over the next 30 years.

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One operation can change a life in an instant – permanent access to high quality eye care across the Pacific will change many lives.

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One operation can change a life in an instant – permanent access to high quality eye care across the Pacific will change many lives.

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