We need your help now to reach more people like Kipar
Hundreds of thousands of people in Kenya are blind or suffering from cataract, and when those people are children, the situation becomes dire.
About 15% of Kenya's population needs urgent eye care
More than 328,000 people in Kenya are blind, with another 750,000 being visually impaired – yet 9 out of 10 of these people don’t need to be.
Help reach people before it is too late
If left untreated for long, diseases like cataract and trachoma can cause permanent blindness. But with your donation, you can help us get to people before it’s too late.
Give children a bright future
Kipar’s father shared his hopes for his son’s future: “Education is the key to life now. This is the way I see it … now that Kipar can see better, I will make sure that when he is of age, he will go to school.”
"To be blind in a place like this really means death"
Dr Kibata was the paediatric ophthalmologist who operated on Kipar.
"To be blind in a place like this really means death," says Dr Kibata.
"Without an operation, Kipar would be completely blind in a couple of years – probably dead by then. Whereas with a cataract operation and maybe some glasses, who knows where this child will be?”
Fred would not stand by and do nothing. We won't either.
Professor Fred Hollows made it his life's work to ensure that everyone, no matter where they are, could access quality eyecare.
He worked tirelessly to end avoidable blindness and now it’s up to us at The Foundation to continue this live-changing work. But we can’t do it without you. It’s people like you who have kept Fred’s vision alive, and allow us to carry on our sight-restoring work.
We’ve still got a long way to go and there’s a lot of work that needs to be done. But Fred had great faith in the “humanitarian nature of the Australian people” and used to say that “caring about other people is what being a human is all about.”
Please donate today to help us give the gift of sight to people who would otherwise lose all hope to avoidable blindness.
"As human beings we must do things to help each other. Disequity diminishes us all."