Pages : pages. Language :. ISBN : Fred and Gabi first met in the early 70s during her training as an orthoptist. A few years later, they worked together on the National Trachoma and Eye Health Program a journey that took them to over Indigenous communities in outback Australia.
These experiences had a huge effect on Fred, motivating him to find a way to reduce the cost of eye care and treatment in developing countries. Fred saw the need for factories to produce affordable intraocular lenses. These lenses were used to treat cataract and significantly cut the cost of restoring sight. He sought to empower local communities by founding these factories in Nepal and Eritrea.
The lenses were expensive when made in Australia, but cheap and accessible when made locally. Despite being diagnosed with cancer, Fred was determined to keep pushing for change in the countries he cared deeply about. In the last few months of his life, he discharged himself from hospital to fly to Vietnam to train over Vietnamese eye specialists in modern surgery techniques.
Fred and Gabi set up The Fred Hollows Foundation with the help of some friends to ensure his work would continue into the future. I asked Jack Waterford how I should draw on the Judeo-Christian scriptures at this stage of the proceedings. He recommended the scene when Jesus responds to the mourning sisters Martha and Mary, calling Lazarus: 'Come out. Unbind him. Let him go free. Thanks Gabi and kids for the invitation.
Let's drink to Fred. For Fred's sake, keep working for justice, sight and good vision. Safe home. And God bless. If there's one thing that the recent election campaign and its outcome demonstrated, it's the depth of the divisions that exist in our Australian community. Our politics is focused on point-scoring, personalities, and name-calling across party lines.
The media, for the most part, don't help, driven by the hour news cycle and the pursuit of advertising dollars into a frenzy of click-bait and shallow sensationalism. Eureka Street offers an alternative. It's less a magazine than a wide ranging conversation about the issues that matter in our country and our world; a conversation marked by respect for the dignity of ALL human beings. Importantly, it's a conversation that takes place in the open, unhindered by paywalls or excessive advertising.
And it's through the support of people like you that it is able to do so. The Bourke cemetery is precious. From a repositioned tiny mosque for our earliest camel drivers, to such a long long row of headstones of nuns, to the awesome beauty of Fred Hollows' grave seen in the picture here, to the suggested stories in briefly worded tombstones, with the whispering trees in the belting heat.
It seemed to this traveler one of the unexpected treasures of our country. I remember feeling that it was perfect for that great man to be buried there, a tough and beautiful place, unassuming, almost out of reach, far from the shallows, with the simple grave, and the sacred art carved by those who loved him.
I have recently come across another notable alumnus who was both an ophthalmic surgeon and missionary priest. Two of the Flynn sisters became Brigidine nuns. Father Frank was widely known as 'Flynn of the North', especially for his medical work among Aborigines in the Northern Territory. Professor Fred Hollows described Father Frank as: 'the man behind his fight for sight'.
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