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Hollows was born in this country before later working in Australia.
What is NZ?
This organisation continues Hollows’ work today
What is The Fred Hollows Foundation?
This vision issue can often be corrected with glasses or contact lenses.
What is refractive error?
Hollows is best known for helping treat this leading cause of blindness.
What are Cateracts?
This structure stands for Point, Evidence, Explain, and this final component.
What is Link?
Access to healthcare, including eye care, is considered this type of right.
What are Human Rights?
This condition occurs when the lens of the eye becomes cloudy.
What are Cateracts?
His work has helped restore sight to millions of people, reducing this global issue.
What is avoidable blindness?
This disease can damage blood vessels in the retina and cause vision loss.
What is Diabetic Eye Disease?
This global sporting event is held every four years and brings together athletes from around the world.
What is the Olympics?
This global framework includes 17 goals created to improve life by 2030.
What are the Sustainable Development Goals?
Fred believed that everyone should have access to this type of care.
What is affordable eye care?
A person who is among the first to develop or promote something new is called this
What is a pioneer?
Taking action to improve society and help others is known as this.
What is Social Action?
This term describes animals that are active at night.
What is Nocturnal?
Many of the countries Fred worked in are classified as this type of countries.
What are Developing/3rd World Countries
Instead of relying on foreign aid, Hollows focused on training this group of people.
Who are local doctors and healthcare workers?
The author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Who is J.R.R Tolkien
If 90% of blindness is avoidable, this suggests the main problem is not medical knowledge but this.
What is Healthcare Access?
The process by which plants make food using sunlight
What is Photosynthesis?
This country is where Fred Hollows established a low-cost lens factory.
What is Nepal?
How does The Fred Hollows Foundation’s work in Papua New Guinea align with Fred Hollows’ original vision for eye health?
What is by strengthening local healthcare systems, training specialists, expanding access, and reducing avoidable blindness?
Hollows’ work demonstrates that solving health issues can also address this broader social issue.
What is Poverty?
In PNG, about this percentage of adults aged over 50 live with blindness, one of the highest rates in the Pacific.
What is 5.6%
This is the smallest country in the world by land area.
What is the Vatican City?