Your donation in action
Your donation will help restore sight to people living with avoidable blindness across the 25+ countries where The Fred Hollows Foundation works. Funds support life-changing surgeries and treatments, training for surgeons and local eye health workers, outreach programs to reach communities in need, and essential equipment for clinics and hospitals.
For every $1 donated, 74.1% goes directly to eye health programs, 5.2% covers essential administration, and 20.7% is invested in fundraising to reach even more people in the future.
By supporting these programs, your gift helps build stronger local health systems, train the next generation of eye care professionals, and give thousands of people the chance to see — creating lasting change for communities around the world.
FAQs
The Foundation is working with Cure Blindness Project (which was co-founded by Dr Sanduk Ruit) to jointly raise $10 million USD ($15.3 million AUD) to unlock this large gift. If the two organisations cannot reach this target, there is a chance we will not receive the gift.
Because of the size of the gift, this campaign is running for much longer than normal, giving everyone an opportunity to have their gift matched and their impact doubled.
The Foundation has never seen a matching gift of this size, and this donor has challenged The Foundation and Cure Blindness Project to reach this ambitious goal and fund more eye health services for those who need access.
This generous donor has requested privacy and asked to remain anonymous. They have supported The Fred Hollows Foundation’s work in the past and share our belief that everyone, everywhere, deserves access to quality eye care.
Through this campaign, the donor is inviting others to join them in matching their gift to help ignite a global movement for sight — amplifying their impact and restoring vision for even more people in need.
If we collectively reach the $10M USD fundraising target, every one-off donation made up to $3M AUD, or before 31 December, will be matched — doubling your impact.
Please note that monthly donations are not eligible for matching in this campaign.
The Foundation had committed to trying to raise $3M, but the more we can raise the better. Our partners have also set their targets, so together we can reach the $10M USD.
No. All funds raised will help us restore sight for people in need — a worthwhile outcome even if the match is not reached. We hope you consider The Foundation’s work worthy of your support.
Cure Blindness Project is a not-for-profit based in the United States, co-founded by Dr Sanduk Ruit. The Foundation has worked with Cure Blindness Project in the past with great results.
Dr Ruit was trained by Fred Hollows himself, and he is the Founder and Executive Director of the Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology in Kathmandu, Nepal. He is a long-time ally and friend of The Fred Hollows Foundation.
Dr Ruit has personally performed more than 120,000 cataract operations.
An investment of this size could help eliminate the cataract backlog and end avoidable blindness in Laos within five years. It could also provide up to half the total funding needed to halve the cataract burden in Ethiopia by the end of 2026, while supporting efforts to eliminate trachoma and strengthen eye health systems affected by USAID funding cuts and global conflict.
Together, this level of support could change the future for hundreds of thousands of people by ensuring they receive the eye care they need.
Your kind donation will be directed toward wherever the need is greatest. The Fred Hollows Foundation works in 25 countries. Your gift will help fund eye health services through screening, surgeries, training eye health workers and building or equipping facilities to bring eye care closer to those who need it.
We are hopeful the campaign target will be achieved to unlock this transformative funding, but there is a chance that if we don’t reach the target, the donations will not be matched. The generous donor wants to maximise their impact which in turn maximises your impact.
Be assured, whether we reach the target or not, every donation will help ensure people who are needlessly blind have their sight restored, so there is no downside. We’ll keep supporters updated as the campaign progresses.
