Fred Hollows Biography Timeline

• Fred Hollows was born in New Zealand in 1929
• In 1960, Fred got a job in Australia.
• 5 years later he was head of the Eye Department at a Sydney hospital
• In the 1970's, he helped launch a national program to attack eye disease in Aboriginal Australians
• In 3 years the team traveled 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 Hollows knew he wouldn't live to see all his ideas happen
• In 1993, Fred died at home surrounded by his friends, his wife Gabi and their five children.