Blindness Statistics Information Sheet  (63kb) 

Every five seconds a person in the world goes blind and a child goes blind every minute. Up to 75% of the world's blindness is avoidable and preventable - which means it can be fixed!

Cataract Blindness Information Sheet  (85kb) 

Cataract is the leading cause of blindness in the world. While easily treated with surgery, most people affected by cataracts live in developing countries

Children and Blindness Information Sheet  (104kb)

Every minute, one child in our world goes blind. A blind child in a developing country has limited education, employment and social opportunities. 

Global Blindness Information Sheet  (393kb)

Every five seconds someone in the world goes blind, mostly in developing countries where blindness can lead to inescapable poverty and early death.

Indigenous Health Information Sheet  (247kb)

There is an alarming disparity between the health and wellbeing of Indigenous Australians and other Australians.

Indigenous Literacy Information Sheet  (142kb)

A lack of literacy skills among Indigenous communities is a common and critical barrier to participating in activities that many of us take for granted.

Poverty and Blindness Information Sheet  (265kb)

Fred worked to help some of the poorest countries in the world. Fred saw for himself how blindness was both a result of poverty and also a cause.

The IOL Story  (46kb)

In the early days, most cataract operations in developing countries involved removing the whole lens from the eye, this left the patient with no focusing mechanism and required  thick 'coke bottle' glasses.