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.
When you partner with The Foundation, your investment 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.
Globally, every $1 USD invested in tackling the world’s two leading causes of blindness, cataract and refractive error, delivers an economic return of $9.40.
We offer excellent value to philanthropists seeking to have impact and make a difference. Since we began working in the Pacific, The Foundation has made remarkable progress towards ending avoidable blindness and vision impairment: we have held more than 1.2 million consultations and performed almost 94,000 surgeries in the region.
We are committed to Fred’s vision of quality, affordable eye care for all. Fred also believed in enabling people to provide eye care in their own communities, so training local eye care professionals 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.
We are committed to working closely with you to direct your gift towards an area of our work that you are passionate about, or to wherever the need is greatest.
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.
Stephne Vaughan
Relationship Manager, Philanthropy
Pippa Ludek
Trusts, Foundations & Regional Funding Specialist
The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ is a registered charitable organisation under the Charities Act 2005.
Charities Commission registration number is CC23722.
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