Transform twice as many lives with a matched gift!
Your donation can help us restore sight to twice as many people. This means twice as many people are given the chance to get an education, find employment, and contribute to their community.
Fred once said, "to help someone to see is a tremendous feeling" and I hope you'll feel especially tremendous knowing that your gift will restore sight to twice as many people!
Help carry on Fred's vision
30 years ago, Fred Hollows captured the hearts of people across Australia with his vision of helping people see, no matter who they were and where they lived. His vision led to The Fred Hollows Foundation which has now restored sight to more than 3 million people and has become a global leader in eye health.
Fred worked tirelessly to end avoidable blindness and has left a legacy that The Foundation now strives to honour. He once said, "caring about other people is what being a human is all about."
It’s caring people like you who have kept Fred’s vision alive and allow us to carry on our sight-restoring work. But there is much more work to be done.
With your support today, we can continue to improve the lives of thousands of people, securing their future and giving them something wonderful to look forward to —the gift of sight.
How your matched gift will help end avoidable blindness:
Train surgeons & nurses where they're needed
Your gift is building local eye health workforces in over 25 countries — including places like Papua New Guinea, Ethiopia and Nepal — so more people, especially in remote and underserved communities, can get quality treatment, closer to home.
Equip clinics to restore sight
With your support, eye clinics receive the surgical and diagnostic resources they need to deliver safe, high-quality surgeries and screenings so more people can access the care they need to see clearly again.
Deliver outreach to remote communities
Your generosity helps bring mobile eye camps and rural clinics to people in Kenya, Cambodia and beyond — reaching those who would otherwise go without care.
Strengthen eye health systems
Together, we partner with governments to build strong, lasting eye care programs that are cost-effective and sustainable. Your matched gift helps tackle avoidable blindness at scale and ensures people can access treatment now and into the future.
Don't miss the chance to double your impact with a matched gift!
Donate NowFrequently asked questions
Matched giving is a time-bound campaign, in which donations are matched dollar-for-dollar to a matched giving fund. A matched giving fund can be one donor or a group of donors whose donations are pooled together, who have offered to match any donations given in a specified time period, to the total value of a specified amount.
Funding to match donations has been provided by a generous anonymous donor who has agreed for their donation to The Fred Hollows Foundation to be used to match donations from the community. Every dollar given in one off donations will be matched, up to a total of $242,000 through to 5pm AEST 26th June 2025. All donations above $2 are tax deductible and will be directed to where the need is greatest.
Once the target has been reached, promotion of the campaign will end and donations will no longer be matched.
Yes, you will receive an email receipt immediately after donating and if you make a monthly gift you will receive a yearly tax receipt in the post every year.
Yes, donations of $2 and over are tax deductible in Australia.
You can update your details on our Donor Update Form. Or, you can get in touch and someone on our Sydney-based Supporter Care Team will be able to help you.
For one-off donations, we accept Visa, Mastercard, American Express, or PayPal. For monthly donations, you can use Visa, Mastercard, American Express, or direct debit.
Your donation will be used to restore sight to those who are needlessly blind, and help end avoidable blindness in the countries where we work, which includes eye operations and treatments, training surgeons and eye health workers, and other sustainable eye health.
For every $1 donated, 74.1% goes directly towards eye health programs, 5.2% is necessary for admin costs, and 20.7% goes towards investment in fundraising efforts, which allows us to help even more people in future years.
