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Int’l organisations help upgrade VNIO
The Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) from the US and the Australia’s Fred Hollows Foundation (FHF) have provided more than US$2 million to help improve the Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology (VNIO). The focus of a two-year project will be on four main fields: developing a training…
Author: VOV News
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Cover: The 25 Best Givers
With money tight, top philanthropists insist on more bang for the buck. Meet the 25 most effective givers. The KIPP Foundation is an Atlantic grantee. By Suzanne McGee. THE NAME OF THE GAME IN PHILANTHROPY this year is to make your dollars go far —…
Author: Barron's
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Susie O'Neill is seeing life differently
by Fiona Purdon OLYMPIC swimming gold medallist Susie O’Neill and her ophthalmologist husband Cliff Fairley will never forget the unbridled joy and emotion from eye surgery recipients in Vietnam. One grandmother’s reaction especially left an impression after O’Neill and Fairley were part of a Fred…
Author: The Courier Mail (Australia)
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Dream come true
15 Jun 2008 THE woman behind one of Australia’s best-remembered personalities, Fred Hollows, is busy. So much so that Gabi, widow of the late Prof Hollows, speaks fast, rarely pausing. It’s because she has a lot to say on The Fred Hollows Foundation. Prof Hollows…
Author: The Sunday Mail (Queensland, Australia)
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Upper age limit for jury service to be abolished
Original Source by Elaine Edwards The Government has been urged to remove all discriminatory elements of the law governing who can serve on a jury after it announced that the upper age limit for jury service will be abolished. The decision was announced on Tuesday…
Author: The Irish Times