Your Efforts Allow Countless Patients To See Again
The Fred Hollows Foundation is committed to sustainable sight restoring work 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, eye screening and sight‑restoring surgery for patients in need.
Help us restore site, 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 blur and brings clarity with brighter future.
9 out of 10 cases of blindness are avoidable
According to International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), there are 43 million people blind worldwide, and 1.1 billion live with vision impairment without access to eye care. Only with continuous improvement on global eye health, can we keep pace with the growing number of preventable blindness cases.
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 blur, brings clarity with 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.
