Tuesday 4 October 2011

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FRED HOLLOWSFred Hollows (1929–1993)
Fred Hollows was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. He became a doctor and began
to specialise in the treatment of diseases of the eye. He had to travel to England to do this and won a prize as one of the top students.

Hollows died in Sydneyin 1993 at the age of 63. The cause of his death was metastatic renal cancer primarily affecting his lungs and brain. He had been diagnosed with the disease six years earlier. Upon his death the Chief Minister of the ACT, Rosemary Follett, described Hollows to her parliamentary colleagues as "an egalitarian and a self-named anarcho-syndicalist who wanted to see an end to the economic disparity which exists between the First and Third Worlds and who believed in no power higher than the best expressions of the human spirit found in personal and social relationships."

 Fed Hllows foundation was launched as an Astralia charitable  foundation sydeny on the 3rd of september 1992. 


 
 

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