Right now, 9 out of 10 people who are blind don’t need to be. Sight loss and vision impairment can affect anyone, including children. One billion people are living with vision loss – most of which is treatable and preventable.
Fred’s Partners are a community of people who support us with a monthly donation. They step in to help us turn these statistics on their head. Just like Fred, they understand the problem, so they roll up their sleeves and help us get the job done through their Monthly Gift.
Cataract is one of the leading causes of vision impairment and blindness. Thankfully, cataracts can be removed through a relatively short 20-minute operation recognised as one of the most cost-effective healthcare interventions.
When you join as a Fred’s Partner with a Monthly Gift, you will help someone in the Pacific living with avoidable blindness. Your impact goes beyond the operating table, by supporting Pacific teams with the funds they need to get people treated, and putting the foundations in place to train local eye doctors and nurse who can go on to restore sight every month in their own communities
It takes just one person to make an impact that will create a whole lifetime of sight – you can be that person today.
can provide up to 3 pairs of glasses
can help restore sight to one person
can help restore sight to up to two people
can manufacture up to 11 intraocular lenses used in cataract surgery
could help restore sight to up to ten people
could cover the cost of a diagnostic lens — used to see the back of the eye
could cover the cost of a set of medical text books for an eye doctor in training
could cover the monthly training fees of an eye nurse for 1 of the 12 months required
could cover the cost of one out of the 48 months required to fully train an eye doctor
could contribute towards the construction of an eye clinic