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__**FRED HOLLOWS**__

// Your Biography Assessment // Fred Hollows' famous slogan was "Leave the world a better place" and his famous quote was "The rich should not live longer simply because they are rich and can afford treatment, and the poor should not die prematurely simply because they are poor". A remarkable man really and his story started at New Zealand in Dunedin on the 9th of April 1929.

Fred Hollows spent his youth in Palmerston North on the north island in New Zealand. He graduated at the Victoria University of Wellington for a BA degree (Bachelor of Arts) in 1949, then he decided that he'd like to take a career in medicine. After that he attended the University of Otago from 1951-1955. He then moved to Wellington Hospital from 1955-1956, and after all that he was working as a house surgeon at Auckland Hospital from 1957-1960. He moved to Australia in 1965. In 1969 he began work in the eye department in a Sydney hospital (Head of a Sydney hospital eye department), that is where this famous quote "The rich should not live longer simply because they are rich and can afford treatment, and the poor should not die prematurely simply because they are poor " comes into our story, this quote would do a lot to his life if he'd follow it, and guess what he did! And it turned his life around. One thing really shocked Fred Hollows and that was that many Aboriginal people in Australia had trachoma, this is an eye disease caused by poor living conditions and poor health. In the 1970's he set a national program to help Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders with eye disease. As a result of that program 100,000 people were screened, 60% of whom were Torres Strait Islanders. Fred halved the amount of people that had trachoma in Australia.

Fred Married Gabi Hollows in 1980 and had five children:Cam, Emma, Annie-Louise and the twins Ruth and Rosa. After all of this work in Australia he became aware of the civil war that was going on in Eritrea and also realised the amount of people that were going blind just literally sitting in their huts, but nevertheless he quickly called a committee meeting about this and set off to work. When word got out so many Australians started volunteering their time and donating money, this meant that Fred's dream of opening a six million dollar eye lens factory became a reality.

Fred established the FRED HOLLOWS Foundation in 1992 and sadly Fred Hollows died on the 10th of February, 1993 (aged 63), and his wife continues his legacy through the Fred Hollows Foundation.

I think Fred Hollows Showed courage by saving people's eye sights and helping others around the world. Fred Hollows showed courage through community and love.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: http://webadmin.hollows.org/Assets/Files/Fact%20Sheet%20Fred%20Hollows.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred Hollows

http://www.hollows.org.au/

http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/fredhollows/