Charitable work
The Foundation distributes a proportion of its profits to Ophthalmic related charities, research and education. Recipients have included.
- The Lions Eye Institute
- Eye Foundation
- St Johns Ambulance
- Equal Health (outreach services to India)
- Association for the Blind (WA)
- Foresight Australia (services to Bangladesh)
- East Timor Maubisse project
- Fred Hollows Foundation (worldwide projects)
- John Fawcett Foundation (Bali mobile eye clinic and other services)
- Glaucoma Australia
It is presently sponsoring a 3 year research project in the Epidemiology of Blindness and is the Principal partner for the Australian and New Zealand Eye Diseases Surveillance Unit.
