Make a powerful, lasting difference in the Pacific with a significant gift through The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ.
We are firmly focused on ending avoidable blindness and vision impairment in the Pacific. Join us to create a future of resilient, sustainable, locally led eye care.
We rely on the generosity and kindness from individuals, families, charitable trusts and foundations who share our vision of a world in which no one is needlessly blind or vision impaired.
Philanthropy plays a significant role in ensuring long-lasting, sustainable impact across the Pacific. Your investment is crucial to achieving Fred’s vision – a future of safe, equitable and high-quality eye care for all.
You will make a powerful, lasting difference for people in the Pacific who are needlessly blind or vision impaired. You will be working with a charity that prides itself on these values:
The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ is one of New Zealand’s most respected and trusted international development organisations. We have been identified as one of the most effective charities to donate to.
Every dollar invested in eye health delivers a return of $28 in low and middle-income countries.
Since we began working in the Pacific, we have made remarkable progress towards ending avoidable blindness and vision impairment. We have held more than 1.3 million consultations and performed over 103,000 surgeries in the region.
We are committed to Fred’s vision of quality, affordable eye care for all. He also believed in enabling people to provide eye care in their own communities, so training is an important part of our long-term vision. Your major gift helps build this vital network of local eye care professionals, and keeps Fred’s vision alive.
Together, we can find the place where your passion and the greatest need meet. Whether that’s an area of our work close to your heart, or wherever the need is most urgent, your commitment will reach further than you might imagine.
Your generosity helps people across the Pacific access life-changing eye care, restoring sight and opening up opportunities for education, employment, and independence. At the same time, you are helping build stronger local health systems and train future eye care professionals, ensuring the benefits of your generosity continue long into the future.
When you partner with us, you can expect:
Talk with our dedicated team to learn more about the ways your support can make a transformational impact in the Pacific.
Our annual performance reports showcases the progress we have made in our goal to end avoidable blindness and vision impairment.
Learn about the future that Fred envisaged – a future of safe, equitable and high-quality eye care for all – and how you can help make this a reality.
By training local eye doctors, nurses and specialists to restore sight in their communities, we are setting the stage for more equitable and accessable eye care.
Climate change poses a significant threat to
healthcare facilities and services across the
Pacific. We strive to ensure our work is climate-resilient and minimises environmental harm.
To restore more than sight, we need to do even more than surgery. That’s why we’re building a new Centre for Eye Health in Papua New Guinea.
Treasuring the importance of her own eyesight prompted Pat Pettit to become a major donor.
“My sight is the sense I most value – to see the smiles on the faces of my children and friends, to interact with my precious nine grandchildren and watch them grow, develop and achieve goals,” she explains. “It distresses me greatly that there are people in this world who are needlessly blind or with restricted vision.”
Pat decided to fund an eye screening van for use by the eye care team in Tonga. Thanks to this generous gift, the team have been able to expand their reach and provide more comprehensive eye care services.
Of her decision to choose The Foundation for her major gift, Pat puts it simply. “I have long admired the work achieved by The Foundation in providing much-needed facilities for the diagnosis and treatment of eye conditions. I feel honoured to be able to facilitate the provision of eye care to outlying areas of Tonga by funding a van for this purpose.”
The eye care van has been put to good use. Between January and October 2023, it performed 5,413 eye consultations and screened 498 patients for diabetes eye disease.
Hamilton businessman Paul Hayes has supported The Foundation for 16 years, giving regularly because he believes restoring vision is one of the most practical, life-changing things you can do.
He’s motivated by the ripple effect restoring sight can have for families. “You’re restoring one person’s sight, but you get a threefold return through the fact they can contribute productively again – they can work, support the household, and help care for children,” Paul says. “And you can’t put a price on what it means to see your partner, children, or grandkids again – sometimes for the first time in years.”
For Paul, it’s less about the size of the gift and more about making giving a habit. “If you’ve done well in business and you’ve got the means, I think you’ve got a moral obligation to give back – especially to people who, through no fault of their own, don’t have the support or structures around them,” he says. “I can’t restore someone’s sight myself, but I can use what I’ve got to support the people who can.”
Stephne Vaughan
Relationship Manager, Philanthropy
Pippa Ludek
Trusts, Foundations & Regional Funding Specialist
