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	The Fred Hollows Foundation
		As a ten year old boy receiving a prize from the terminally ill Fred Hollows in 1992, I remember a bushy-eyed man with a dry wit, frank manner and a genuine smile.
		Hollows trained doctors in Nepal, Vietnam and Eritrea to insert intraocular lenses, and since his death The Fred Hollows Foundation has built internationally accredited laboratories in Eritrea and Nepal to make lenses.
		Furthermore, The Fred Hollows Foundation has worked in partnership with people, governments and agencies in 29 countries to build sustainable health programs to prevent unnecessary and avoidable blindness.
	seeaustraliarun.com /hollows (371 words)

	The Fred Hollows Foundation International : Home
		The Fred Hollows Foundation is inspired by work of the late Professor Fred Hollows, whose vision was for a world where no one was needlessly blind.
		The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ works in the Pacific region, including Timor-Leste and Papua New Guinea, where over 80,000 people are blind, 70% due to cataract, and a further 240,000 suffer significant vision loss.
		The Fred Hollows Foundation UK has agreed to fund a new Community Eye Centre in Okhaldhunga, Nepal, over the next 5 years.
	www.fredhollows.org (137 words)

	Fred Hollows (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fred Hollows was born in New Zealand in 1929.
		Fred Hollows became to be known as the 'wild colonial boy' of Australian surgery, partly because he had a deep love of the bush, and also because he had a wild temper.
		Fred could be very gruff when things weren't going as he thought they should and this made him some enemies.
	abc.net.au /schoolstv/australians/hollows.htm (600 words)

	Fred Hollows - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hollows received his BA degree from Victoria University in Wellington, and did post-graduate work in Wales before moving to Australia in 1965 where he became associate professor of ophthalmology at the University Of New South Wales in Sydney.
		In 1992 The Fred Hollows Foundation was established to provide eye care for the underprivileged and poor and to improve the health of indigenous Australians.
		Hollows was given a state funeral service at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, and was interred in Bourke, where he had worked in 1970.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fred_Hollows (766 words)

	Fred Hollows (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fred Hollows' death last week was felt by everyone who knew of his remarkable efforts and achievements in improving the health of Third World peoples in Africa, Asia and the Australian outback.
		Fred Hollows was a humanitarian in the fullest sense of the term: someone who acknowledged the limits imposed on us by nature but refused to accept the limits we impose on ourselves.
		Fred Hollows' optimism, even when he knew he had terminal cancer, clearly derived from the view that the individual, unfortunately mortal, still has the potential to change the society into which she or he is born.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1993/88/88p8edit.htm (446 words)

	The kings and queens of mean versus Fred Hollows
		Fred was stirred up intellectually in the most creative way by the heady ferment of ideas, characteristic of the 1960s and 1970s.
		He underlines, in a dignified way, that both Fred and himself were Marxists and non-believers, though he establishes a nice touch of unity with the congregation by referring to his own start in life as a Catholic altar boy.
		Fred's coffin is covered by five flags: the Aboriginal flag, the Vietnamese flag, the Nepalese flag, the Australian flag and the Eritrean flag.
	members.optushome.com.au /spainter/Hollows.html (5574 words)

	Fred Hollows
		Fred Hollows in 1992, I remember a bushy-eyed man with a dry wit, frank manner and a genuine smile.
		Hollows trained doctors in Nepal, Vietnam and Eritrea to insert intraocular lenses, and since his death The Fred Hollows Foundation has built internationally accredited laboratories in Vietnam, Eritrea and Nepal to make lenses.
		Fred's life was spent in the service of an unswerving belief that the answer to human misery is action, not despair.
	www.seeaustraliarun.com /hollows/fred_hollows.shtml (310 words)

	Hollows, Frederick Cossum (Fred) - Bright Sparcs Biographical entry
		Hollows was also instrumental in reducing the cost of eye care in developing countries by setting up intraocular lens factories in Nepal and Eritrea.
		In 1985 Fred Hollows was awarded the Order of Australia but refused to accept it in protest to the poor state of Aboriginal Health.
		Fred Hollows died of cancer in Sydney on 10 February 1993.
	www.asap.unimelb.edu.au /bsparcs/biogs/P004572b.htm (554 words)

	The Fred Hollows Foundation in Eritrea
		Fred arranged for Desbele to travel to Australia for training in modern ophthalmic surgical techniques and returned to Eritrea himself with equipment to conduct cataract training workshops for other Eritrean doctors.
		The Fred Hollows Intraocular Lens Laboratory was officially opened in the capital of Eritrea, Asmara in 1994. It now produces world class IOL's for less than $5, selling them for around $10. They are used for cataract management programs in Eritrea and also exported to other developing countries around the world.
		The Fred Hollows IOL Laboratory in Eritrea was established with the help of The Fred Hollows Foundation which works to restore sight to people in developing countries who are blinded by cataract.
	www.fortunecity.de /kunterbunt/bayern/215/hollowserit.html (813 words)

	Fred Hollows -- GHEBREMEDHIN 82 (9): 1096 -- British Journal of Ophthalmology
		Fred Hollows died on 10 February 1993 in the age of 63 years after a short and valiant battle with kidney, lung, and brain
		Fred Hollows was no dry, dusty academic but had considerable style and joie de vivre.
		Fred Hollows will remain for a long time in our hearts and memories.
	bjo.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/82/9/1096f (468 words)

	Heroism in Action: Fred Hollows Foundation
		The Fred Hollows Foundation was launched in 1992, so it is a relatively new organisation.
		The aim of the Foundation is to raise funds to continue the work of Fred Hollows himself, who worked to improve the vision capabilities of people in third world countries.
		Since Fred Hollows' death, the Foundation has continued to raise funds for the programs he began and are constantly looking for news ways in which they can assist these disadvantaged areas of the world.
	mediatheek.thinkquest.nl /~ll165/action/fredh.html (326 words)

	Fred Hollows (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fred and his brothers, Colin, John and Maurice, made the most of there time at Oakum camping out and bush walking and learning about wood working.
		Fred Hollows was born in new Zealand in Dunedin in 1929 on the 9th of April.
		Fred Hollows is a famous because he helps blind and deaf people with problems.
	teachit.acreekps.vic.edu.au /cyberfair2001/fredhollows.htm (223 words)

	Gabi Hollows - Saxton Speaker Bureau - Speaker Details
		In 1976 she joined the National Trachoma and Eye Health Program which was initiated and led by Fred Hollows and sponsored by the Royal Australian College of Ophthalmologists and the Australian Government.
		Gabi Hollows (nee O’Sullivan) and Fred Hollows were married in 1980 and have five children: Cam, Emma, Anna-Louise and twins Ruth and Rosa.
		When Fred became sick with cancer, Gabi exuded Fred’s vibrant spirit to help build The Fred Hollows Foundation, while still running a household of young children and taking care of her husband.
	www.saxton.com.au /default.asp?sd8=222 (663 words)

	ActNow - The Fred Hollows Foundation
		Fred was an eye doctor, a skilled surgeon of international renown, a champion of the right of all people to good health and a strong advocate for social justice.
		The Fred Hollows Foundation has a vision of a world where no one is needlessly blind and where Indigenous Australians enjoy the same health and life expectancy as other Australians.
		Thanks to The Fred Hollows Foundation and its local partners, patients with restored sight are returning to work, doctors are passing on their new-found skills by training colleagues and Indigenous Australians are taking ownership of activities which impact their health and life expectancy.
	www.actnow.com.au /Groups/The_Fred_Hollows_Foundation.aspx (289 words)

	The Fred Hollows Foundation
		The Fred Hollows Foundation has been working with the Jawoyn Association and Jawoyn communities in the Katherine East Region since 1999 on a multifaceted program aimed at improving nutrition thus addressing one of the major causes of ill health in these communities.
		In these remote communities the local Store is usually the only place where essential goods can be bought and has an especially critical role in whether people who live in the community can access quality, nutritious food at a price they can afford.
		Left to right The Fred Hollows Foundation's Community Relations Coordinator, Ros Bradley; Wuduluk Store Manager, Caroline Wurrben; Store Committee Member, Jennifer Kennedy; Woolworths CEO, Roger Corbett; Chairman of the Store Committee, Joseph Brown; Colleen Orr and Community Store Mentor, Barry Orr at the Woolworths conference in August 2003.
	www.woolworthslimited.com.au /community/peoplehelpingpeople/fredhollowsfoundation.asp (430 words)

	The Blender: GlobalLeader Profile#4 Fred Hollows
		One of the world’s best known stirrers for social justice, Fred Hollows dedicated his life to ensuring the most disadvantaged people in the world (including the Indigenous people of our own country Australia) were provided with the highest quality eye care at the lowest possible costs, through training and self-empowerment of the people.
		The most inspirational thing about Fred was his determination to take a thing he loved and combined it with another to help less fortunate people in the world.
		Fred Hollow certainly had a vision that was clear and touched many people.
	www.worldvision.com.au /stir/blender/forum_posts.asp?TID=318&get=last (1551 words)

	The Fred Hollows Foundation New Zealand : Home
		Andrea Walker recently accompanied a Fred Hollows Foundation NZ eye team on the first ever sight-restoring trip to the Fijian island of Ovalau.
		Working in partnership with local NGO Fo Naroman Timor-Leste (FNTL), The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ-FNTL program has dispensed 10,000 spectacles in some of the poorest regions of Timor-Leste in the past two years.
		The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ is pleased to announce the inaugural Sir Edmund Hillary Pacific Eye Scholarship, named in memory of our late patron.
	www.hollows.org.nz (150 words)

	The Atlantic Philanthropies \| Atlantic: Grantees: Profiles: 13734 Sabona Fred Hollows
		Critical shortcomings also exist in other areas of vision care and treatment, including surgical treatment of glaucoma, laser treatment of diabetic retinopathy and harvesting and storage of corneas.
		Atlantic provides support to the Fred Hollows Foundation South Africa to construct a multifunctional eye hospital, Sabona Centre, in the Eastern Cape Province to:
		Through this grant, Fred Hollows provides approximately 3,000 sight restorative surgeries each year at the Sabona Centre and a further 2,500 operations in the five rural satellite hospitals.
	atlanticphilanthropies.org /grantees/profiles/13734_sabona_fred_hollows (472 words)

	NATIVE-L (February 1993): Fred Hollows (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fred, an eye doctor, was very well known for his professional work
		Fred gave up his sunday afternoon, at short notice, to examine
		Rest in peace, Fred Hollows, after a job well done.
	nativenet.uthscsa.edu /archive/nl/9302/0062.html (240 words)

	The Fred Hollows Foundation International : Photo Collection
		The Fred Hollows Foundation has a magnificent collection of images, which illustrate who we are and what we do in the countries where we work.
		Our Photo Collection shows a selection of photos of Professor Fred Hollows as well as photos taken in countries where we work from the last two years.
		Copyright of each photo belongs to The Fred Hollows Foundation or photographers / organisations as otherwise stated.
	www.hollows.org /photolibrary (375 words)

	The Fred Hollows Foundation
		The Fred Hollows Foundation ("FHF") is an Australia based non-government organization whose mission is to prevent and treat avoidable blindness in developing countries.
		An Australian doctor, Fred Hollows, decided to make intraocular lenses more affordable so that cataract operations could be performed more cost-effectively.
		To do this, FHF built laboratories in Eritrea and Nepal to produce IOL's and provide them to developing nations at a cost that is a fraction of commercially produced IOL's.
	www.silvertonfoundation.org /?nd=996 (272 words)

	Himalayan Cataract Project - Fred Hollows Foundation Intraocular Lens Factory
		At a cost of $5 per lens, the Fred Hollows IOL factory makes about 200,000 lenses every year.
		One reason the Himalayan Cataract Project and the Tilganga Eye Centre have been able to keep costs for cataract surgery low is the Fred Hollows Foundation Intraocular Lens Factory in Tilganga (see Fred Hollows Foundation link).
		Established in 1994, the factory manufactures and supplies low-cost (USD $6 per lens), high-quality lenses to local and regional hospitals, ophthalmologists, and surgeons for use in cataract surgery (see Cataracts).
	cureblindness.ecopixel.com /tilganga/factory.html (157 words)

	Reportage Home
		This photo gallery features the work of photographer Michael Amendolia, and is part of a project he was involved in for the Hollows Institute.
		The photos were taken in 1992, six months before Fred Hollows died.
		He is now represented by the UK agency, Network Photographers, but had spent four years working at News Limited at The Australian newspaper.
	www.uts.edu.au /oth/reportage/photojourn/fredhollows/gallery.html (155 words)

	Scoop: The Fred Hollows Foundation Benefited by Artwork
		When Bruno Mertens, aged eighty-nine years, decided it was time to settle his affairs, he chose The Fred Hollows Foundation as the beneficiary of the proceeds from the sale of a lifetime of artwork by himself and his wife.
		He stopped painting during the Vietnam War because he decided that his priority was to teach peace, and he first needed to establish peace within himself.
		The Fred Hollows Foundation was launched in New Zealand in October 1992 to continue the sight restoring work of its founder, kiwi-born Professor Fred Hollows.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/GE0407/S00019.htm (1352 words)

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		Sydney Commercial Kitchens is proud to support the work of The Fred Hollows Foundation.
		Three dollars [$3] from each sale will be donated to The Fred Hollows Foundation.
	www.sydneycommercialkitchens.com.au (562 words)

	Development Work Database \| Dev-Zone
		The Fred Hollows Foundation is a non government development organisation which seeks to eradicate avoidable blindness in developing countries and improve the health outcomes of Indigenous Australians.
		The Foundation actively supports the development of local solutions and infrastructure to resolve inequity caused by poverty and disadvantage.
		The Foundation's sustainable development approach is inspired by the work and example of the late Professor Fred Hollows.
	www.dev-zone.org /jobs/Detailed/3775.php (360 words)

	Fred Hollows Foundation
		Raise $4500 for the Fred Hollows Foundation and be rewarded with a trip & trek to Nepal
		The Fred Hollows Foundation continues its wonderful work restoring sight to thousands of disadvantaged people around the world.
		If you raise $4500, you will be rewarded with a 13-day trip to Nepal.
	getaway.ninemsn.com.au /article.aspx?id=17617 (175 words)

	Scoop: Bring in Fred Hollows Foundation or fund surgery
		Bring in Fred Hollows Foundation or fund surgery
		Turner: Bring in Fred Hollows Foundation or fund eye surgery
		The Government should either fund eye treatment for New Zealanders properly or ask the Fred Hollows Foundation to add us in with Bangladesh and Nepal in the queue for charitable treatment, United Future's Judy Turner said today.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/PA0409/S00052.htm (1087 words)

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