Over 30 years after Fred Hollows led a team of eye health professionals into rural and remote Australia, a concerted effort has been made to ensure outback Australians can access the highest quality eye health care.

The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ works in the Pacific region, including Timor-Leste and Papua New Guinea, where over 80,000 people are blind, 70% due to cataract, and a further 240,000 suffer significant vision loss.

The Fred Hollows Foundation UK has agreed to fund a new Community Eye Centre in Okhaldhunga, Nepal, over the next 5 years. A total of £50,000 will be invested and over 3,000 patients will be able to receive treatment each year.