Peter Sweeney has one big wish for the festive season — that more people could see it. You could play Santa Claus and open up a new world for someone.ANY affliction, any disease is horrible.
So many make enormous inroads, and have far-reaching implications, on not just the sufferer, but his/her family and friends.
There is so much beauty to see in this world – but so many people miss out on this simple pleasure.
In many cases, this can be changed for just a few dollars – 25 to be exact – and in just a few minutes – 20 to be exact.
Fred Hollows may have died on February 11, 1993, but in many ways he lives on.
Fred – who, to say the least, was a pretty straight shooting character – had a vision nobody in the world should be needlessly blind. He set out restoring the sight of folk in Eritrea, Nepal and Vietnam, and today the Fred Hollows Foundation, born on September 3, 1992, has increased that work into almost another 20 countries, including ours.
Over a million people have had their sight restored through IOL (intra-ocular lense) implant cataract surgery.
Time for a short exercise.
Close your eyes for as long as you can – while trying to go about living life as normally as you can.
Tough, isn’t it? And as sad, and in many cases as tragic, as they are, so many other physical disabilities and challenges people face, mightn’t be as tough as being blind is. At least you can see. Why not this Christmas literally help open someone’s eyes to the world?
Play Santa Claus and give a present to the Fred Hollows Foundation.
You can help someone living in one of the world’s most remote and underdeveloped areas see again.
Who knows, it may even be somebody in Australia?
Sure, Christmas is a time for receiving … but it’s also a time for giving. And it is in giving that we receive.
Contact 1800 352 352 or go to www.hollows.org.au
