Our achievements

In 2006, The Foundation developed a five-year roadmap – with ambitious steps to achieve Fred’s goals of improving Indigenous health and ending avoidable blindness.

As we come to the end of that five year period, it’s important to take stock of what has been achieved.

Over the last five years The Foundation has:

• Performed eye operations and treatments on 784,378 people
• Supported training for 31,121 medical and support staff
• Looked into the eyes of 6,614,085 people
• Provided $10,131,837 of medical equipment
• Built or upgraded 119 eye health facilities
• Expanded to work in more than 55 Indigenous communities

Thank you for helping Fred's work live on. We really couldn't do it without you.

• Restored sight to over 1,000,000 people
• Pioneered modern techniques of cataract surgery
• Reduced cost of cataract surgery to as little as $25 in some developing countries
• Set up independent and commercially successful intraocular lens (IOL) laboratories in Nepal and Eritrea
• The laboratories export to more than 50 countries and have produced over 4 million sight-saving lenses
• Price of IOLs reduced from over $150 to just $8
• Worked in over 30 countries worldwide, with new programs launched in places such as North Korea, Rwanda, Lao PDR and Burundi.
  
• 2008 winner of the Givewell Good Giving Australian Charity Award 'Best Practice not-for-profit’
• Winner of the National Award for Excellence in Community Business Partnerships in recognition of the successful partnership between The Foundation, Woolworths and the Wugularr community for the Community Stores Program
• Foundation friend and partner, Dr Sanduk Ruit, appointed an honorary Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for ground-breaking work overcoming avoidable blindness
• Worked with partners to develop new technology for the developing world, delivering innovative solutions through specifically designed lathes, lasers and microscopes.