1.3 million children with low vision due to refractive errors (Dubai, 6 September 2021) Noor Dubai Foundation and The Fred Hollows Foundation have signed a strategic partnership agreement to reduce...
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Nearly 200 charities call on PM not to do a u-turn by reducing UK spend on aid
Nearly 200 UK humanitarian, development and domestic charity leaders and leaders, including The National Federation of Women’s Institutes, Save the Children, Greenpeace UK, UNICEF UK and Friends of...
At least 130,000 Palestinian people live with vision impairment, at least 70% of those who are blind are women
DUBAI – 8 October 2020, There are at least 130,000 Palestinian people aged 50 years and older who live with blindness or some form of visual impairment, according to a recent survey implemented by...
Palestine: lockdown robbed 18,000 patients of accessing eyecare services, pandemic puts extra obstacle on the third most prevalent disability category
DUBAI, October 2, 2020: The coronavirus pandemic has severely impacted patients who have been diagnosed with vision impairment. Thousands of patients in Palestine have not been seen by an...
Eye health critical to global health agenda: World Health Assembly
World leaders have committed to making eye health an integral part of the mainstream health agenda and set the agenda for eye health for the next decade. The 73rd World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted...
Pakistan: The Fred Hollows Foundation helps eye hospitals to continue saving sight; COVID19 stops 50,000 eye patients from accessing healthcare services
Dubai, 8 July 2020: The Fred Hollows Foundation has repurposed funds from its comprehensive eye care services to help in the fight against coronavirus in Pakistan. The Foundation’s Pakistan Country...
Bangladesh: frontline eye healthcare worker tests positive for COVID-19
Dubai, 25 June: An ophthalmic nurse who works at The Fred Hollows-supported diabetic retinopathy zone to restore sight has tested positive for the virus. Mahamuda Mukul, 45, is a senior ophthalmic...
Bangladesh: An eye health organization helps in the fight against COVID-19
The Fred Hollows Foundation supplies five healthcare facilities with personal protective equipment Dhaka, 22 May 2020: With support from the Australian Government through the Australian NGO...
Hollows CEO's Pakistan plea: 'Two weeks to save lives'
Pakistan: The Fred Hollows Foundation CEO, Brian Doolan, says tens of thousands of homeless earthquake victims will freeze to death if help does not get to remote mountain regions before snow begins...
Pakistan: Focus shifts from emergency appeal to rebuilding
The Fred Hollows Foundation today announced that it will close the general community component of its South Asia Earthquake Appeal on Monday 31st October, reporting total donations to date at over...
Pakistan emergency update: 1000 tents fly out for Pakistan tomorrow
The Fred Hollows Foundation has agreed to distribute almost 1000 tents to homeless families in Pakistan living in the Hazara and Kashmir regions. The tents, valued art $110 each will fly out tomorrow...
Pakistan: Foundation team leads first help into Tahkot
The Fred Hollows Foundation team has delivered essential supplies to Tahkot, a village of 40,000 that had been cut off from the rest of the world since Saturday's earthquake. "When our advance party...
Pakistan: Medicines go to some of hardest hit in South Asia Earthquake Appeal
Staff of The Fred Hollows Foundation will deliver essential medicines to hospitals in Pakistan, targeting Abbottabad, Haripur, Mansehra and Batgram, which service many of the communities hardest hit...