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Seeing is Believing - Issue 4
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Feature: Resolution accepted at World Health Assembly
As a member of the Vision 2020: The Right to Sight global initiative, which attended the recent 56th World Health Assembly in Geneva, The Fred Hollows Foundation has been involved in the promotion and subsequent acceptance of an important resolution on the elimination of avoidable blindness.
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Feature: Looking Through Pacific Eyes
Through Pacific Eyes is an exhibition of photographs by Australian photojournalist Sandy Scheltema. Commissioned by The Foundation these wonderful images visually capture the challenges of restoring sight in the Pacific.
Photo: Dr Imo, Samoa's only eye doctor, checking patient Lasela's eyes, who travelled a long distance to have cataracts in both eyes removed. Photo courtesy of Sandy Scheltema.
The photographs feature the story of Lasela, a Samoan woman who travelled from her village in Savaii to Apia to receive sight restoring treatment from Dr Imo, Samoa’s only eye doctor. The hospital in Apia provides eye care for Samoa's 200,000 people and leaves Dr Imo little time to deliver services in the rural areas where they are desperately needed. Lasela had to take her journey to Apia eleven times for pre and post-operative check ups.
A new joint initiative between The Foundation and the New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZAID) was also announced at the exhibition launch.
NZAID has provided a five year grant to The Foundation for its Pacific eye health program, which will be used to promote and improve eye health in the Pacific.
Currently many countries in the region have inadequate eye care services, with very few trained eye care nurses, inadequate equipment and populations which cannot readily access the limited number of eye clinics. Lack of services is directly impacting upon the increased prevalence of blindness in the Pacific, which is in turn having a severe economic impact on regional communities.
“NZAID support provides much needed funding and enables The Foundation to work effectively as an official advocate for blindness prevention in the Pacific,” said New Zealand Country Manager, Carmel Williams.
Through Pacific Eyes will be exhibited in various venues around New Zealand over the next few months. To preview some of the images click here or see where we work in the Pacific.
To find out more about the partnership between The Foundation and NZAID read this.
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Congratulations! First Fred Hollows Award presented
Last month Australian author Thomas Keneally was honoured with the first ever Fred Hollows Award.
Commissioned by the Eritrean Development Foundation (EDF), and presented at a fundraising dinner in Washington DC, the Award honours the legacy of Fred Hollows and his commitment to eradicating treatable blindness in Eritrea and throughout the world.
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Special Offer: See the World from a different perspective
When asked how he conquered the biggest challenge of his life, Rob Scott, a past participant of The Foundation's See the World Challenge, replied "If I can do it, then you can too!"
Photo: On top of the world in Nepal! Photo courtesy of Tim Macartney-Snape.
Speaking at a See the World info night in Sydney earlier this month, Rob told of his efforts to raise funds for The Foundation and of his challenging adventure trip to Nepal this year, where he got a special insight into the work of The Foundation.
Accept the challenge and be surprised!
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Annual Report available now!
 The Foundation’s Annual Report for the year ending 31 December, 2002 is now available. The report includes details on The Foundation’s year of operations, achievements and financial statements, along with special acknowledgements to our many corporate, community and media supporters.
To view the report online click here or to request a hardcopy please email Rhonda Prentice.
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Frequently Asked Questions
At the end of the financial year we all begin to think about our tax again! To find out more about tax issues and how to make your donations work for you read our special frequently asked 'tax time' questions.
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What's NEW on our website
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