From http://ourfunnyplanet.com
“Soft words butter no parsnips”
English Proverb
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(from www.hollows.org.nz)
âWhen I met Fred Hollows, I didnât think I would end up on this path. He wanted someone who knew what they were doing to go to Eritrea and help set up a plant to manufacture intraocular lenses â artificial lenses that can be transplanted into peopleâs eyes to defeat cataract blindness and allow them to seeâŚ
An old colleague from the medical school introduced me to Fred as a scientist who could build labs in Africa and Asia, but Fred, who usually made a point of being as rude as possible, didnât even acknowledge me.
âYeah, but is he any bloody good?â he snorted and kept movingâŚ
Fred had a tendency to say whatever he thought he needed to get the results he wanted. Iâve seen him with patients and he was the classic gruff, kindly old physician with them. And there was no one smarter than he was when it came to community medicine. Everybody else, though, only got to see the foulmouthed tough guy. He loved to challenge people: âJeez youâre ugly, youâve got a face like a hatful of arseholes,â was a standard greeting. But he was also a supreme example of how one person can inspire people to do great things.â
(from ‘Rebel with a cause’ by Ray Avery)
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Fred Hollows
( 1929 – 1993 )
(from www.hollows.org.nz)
“Fred Hollows was an internationally acclaimed eye surgeon and social justice activist who championed the right of all people to high quality and affordable eye care.
The Fred Hollows Foundation was established in Sydney, Australia, on 3 September 1992, just five months before Professor Fred Hollows passed away.
We have a vision of a world where no one is needlessly blind. We work to restore sight and end avoidable blindness in more than 29 developing countries across Asia, Africa and the Pacific.
Our sight-restoring work is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.
Since 1992, The Foundation has restored the sight of well over one million people around the world; in many cases all it took was a simple 20 minute operation costing as little as $25. In the last five years alone, The Foundation has also trained more than 30,000 eye health workers.”
(from ‘The Foundation and Our Achievements’)
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