FAQs

Fundraising for The Fred Hollows Foundation as part of your Search4Hurt Challenge will not only enable you to make a difference with your fitness efforts, it is also the best way to win exclusive S4H merch, and more importantly, the top 2 male and 2 female fundraisers WIN a spot on the show, taking on team S4H at 2024 Hyrox Sydney!

Fundraising to help restore sight to needlessly blind people is part of your challenge. We have a range of rewards to thank and acknowledge your fundraising efforts.

These prizes are awarded each time you hit a certain fundraising target, and include limited-edition S4H socks, caps and t-shirts.

There is even the chance to have the S4H team come and run a mini 'Hurtcamp' at your local gym, and of course the top 2 male and 2 female fundraisers earn a starring role on an episode of the live TV show!

No, fundraising is not mandatory however it is the only way to get your hands on some cool S4H merchandise and it increases your changes to be part of the TV live shows next year.

Search4Hurt and The Fred Hollows Foundation hope you are committed to help needlessly blind people to give them a second chance and be able to see again.

There are over 43 million people blind today but sadly 9 out of 10 people don't need to be! That should be encouragement enough to step up and help us make a difference.

As little as $25 can help restore sight to a needlessly blind person. We will help you with tips and tricks to make fundraising an easy and fun part of your Search4Hurt challenge.

Our goal is for each participants to embraces this challenge and commits to help raise $500, which goes towards restoring sight to up to 20 blind people.

And remember, thanks to generous sponsors of the show, we will be able to offer small rewards and incentives to fundraisers, just to make your efforts worthwhile :-)

The Fred Hollow Foundation is the sole charity partner of Search4Hurt Qualies. 100% of the money raised goes to The Foundation. Details of how we spend your donation can be found in our annual reports here.

Simply send them the link to your online fundraising page and invite them to donate to you. People who use their Social Media to spread the word and engage their network for support usually raise twice as much as fundraisers who only send out emails. So make sure you spread the news and use all your channels to engage your networks

While the cost of cataract surgery varies depending on the specific operating environments in the countries where we work, in some countries it is possible to restore sight for as little as $25.

Our $25 cost includes the three key things needed to restore sight – the surgeon’s time, the consumable equipment and the intraocular lens (IOL) which replaces the cataract.

The most important element in modern cataract surgery is the IOL – Fred Hollows used to refer to them as "the most expensive pieces of plastic in the world". Reducing the cost of the IOL was the fundamental factor in making cataract surgery affordable.

Today, IOL prices vary significantly – including in low and middle-income countries.

In October 2021 The Foundation evaluated our program costs for small incision cataract surgery in countries including Pakistan, Bangladesh and Cambodia to ensure the $25 cost remained accurate.

Our assessment showed IOLs start from $4 in Pakistan, about $6 in Cambodia, and about $14 in Bangladesh.

The other key costs are the surgeon’s time (which is less than $1.50 per patient in those three countries) and consumable equipment (as little as $5.46).

So with the cost of the IOL, the surgeon and the consumables it is possible that The Foundation can restore sight for as little as $25 in some countries.

We acknowledge that not all surgeries in all countries are as little as $25. The cost of surgery depends on factors including the country of treatment, the age and circumstances of the patient, how and where the treatment is delivered, the type of procedure, the IOL used, the hospital type (government or private), the facilities of the hospital, inpatient or day procedure delivery mechanisms, and the economic status of people in the country or region.