Your Efforts Allow Countless Patients To See Again
The Fred Hollows Foundation is committed to restoring site to people across the globe. Beyond restoring sight for patients, we reach remote communities to:
- Renovate and build medical facilities
- Train local eye surgeons and healthcare workers
- Provide long‑term blindness prevention services
We invite you to join our monthly sight restore donation program. As a token of gratitude, you’ll receive a commemorative Vision Action lens cloth, symbolizing your kindness in wiping away darkness and brightening lives. With HK$150 per month, you can support eye screening and sight‑restoring surgery for patients in need.
Help us restore sight, one cloth at a time!
Clarity Restored, Lives Rewarded
A story of restored sight was carried behind every symbolic lens cloth. Your donation wipes away blurry images and brings clarity and a brighter future.
9 out of 10 cases of blindness are avoidable
Currently 43 million people around the world are blind and 1.1 billion live with some form of vision loss. About 90 per cent of those affected live in low-income and middle-income countries.
If we don’t act now by 2050 it is estimated more than 61 million people will be blind because of the growing and ageing population.
With continuous improvement in global eye health, we can make progress. More than 90 per cent of vision loss is preventable or treatable and we can address it using existing highly cost-effective interventions.
Every donation brings clarity. Every lens cloth is a symbolic gift that represents compassion, connecting you to the lives you’ve touched, and reminding the impact you have made. Donate now and help us restore sight!
Your donation wipes away blurry images, brings clarity and a brighter future.
Believe in Sight: Illuminate Every Dream of Education
A seven-year-old boy Jira, missed three years of school because he was struggling to see. The Fred Hollows Foundation organised an outreach eye surgery camp in Kilifi Country, Kenya, providing free eye examinations and cataract surgeries for local residents, and Jira can restore his sight and see again.
Overcoming Cataract and Seeing the World Again
Do you remember what your world looked like when you were seven? Was it filled with brightness, curiosity, running freely, and laughter?
For seven‑year‑old Lumnguen from Laos, it used to be the same — until an accident slowly took away his ability to see clearly. Sunlight became painful, the road to school became dangerous, and even the faces of his friends began to blur.
The Final Goal of Restoring Sight: Putting Down the Stick
Every crutch in the hands of the blind carries a touching story of regaining light and a new life. They are "gratitude crutches," the best testament to countless lives letting go of dependence and reclaiming independence. Once, they were the only support in a blind person's world; today, they symbolize each life transformed by our work. The ultimate goal of The Fred Hollows Foundation is to collect more such crutches, so that more people can witness this colorful world with their own eyes.
