According to the World Health Organization, approximately nine million people in China are living with blindness, with cataract blindness accounting for 42% or 2.5 million of those cases. A further 400,000 people become cataract blind in China each year.

China's ever-increasing blind population equates to 20% of the world's blind population and surpasses the total population of countries such as Denmark, Finland and Norway.

The Fred Hollows Foundation has been working with local partners in Jiangxi Province China since 1998 to prevent and treat cataract blindness and other avoidable blindness conditions.

The current China-Australia Cataract Surgery Training Cooperation Program is working towards developing a sustainable model of high volume cataract surgery in the province which is accessible to the poor.

Find out more about the program

The Fred Hollows Foundation China
Address: Room 503, 5th Floor, 4 Block 185 Er Qi North Road,
Nanchang, Jiangxi Province 330046, PR China
Phone: + 86 791 6379 569
Fax: + 86 791 6379 569
Email: fhfchina@126.com