The timeline of Fred Hollows

Fred Hollows
1929-1993

1929                Fred Hollows was born in New Zealand 

1960               Fred got a job in Australia

1965               Fred was head of the Eye Department at a Sydney hospital.

1970's            Fred helped launch a national program to attack eye disease in Aboriginal Australians

In three years of 1970's       Fred and his team travelled all over outback Australia. It treated 30,000 people, performed a                                                   thousand operations and prescribed more than 10,000 pairs of glasses.

By 1980,                                    Fred was travelling all over the world to help set up eye health programs in developing                                                            countries. 

By 1989                                 Fred was dying of cancer. It didn't slow him down...and instead of getting miserable

1993,                                 Fred died at home surrounded by his friends, his wife Gabi and their five children.