Artificial Eyes in Bali – John Fawcett Foundation

I just spent the last eight days in Bali where I trained two people in the techniques for making artificial eyes. 

I was invited there as a guest of the John Fawcett Foundation.  John Fawcett is a West Australian who moved to Bali in 1991 and saw a need to address the preventable blindness that is prevalent among the local people.

John Fawcett achieved this by creating a wonderful environment for operations to be done as well as organising the specialists to come to Bali and train local people. 

To date they have conducted twenty-seven thousand cataract operations.  This week we made artificial eyes for people from young children to elderly folk.

The foundation runs out-reach clinics, organises visiting specialists and trains local people in all aspects of the running of the foundation.

Please click on the link to make a donation or to find out more about the John Fawcett Foundation