The traditional links of the Order of St John with Jerusalem are reflected in the work of the Jerusalem Eye Hospital. This is a major eye hospital established and maintained by international members of the Order including Australia.

The Hospital is in East Jerusalem, and provides ophthalmic care, including sophisticated eye surgery, for a predominantly underprivileged Arab community among whom eye disease is a serious and widespread problem. There is also a clinic in Gaza and an Outreach program through which the villages of the West Bank are visited by a team from the hospital, with the aim of preventing eye disease or treating it at an early stage rather than allowing it to take hold and then require therapy.

St John in Victoria co-ordinates the State's financial support for the hospital and provides fellowships for one or two postgraduate ophthalmic surgeons who spend a year at the hospital.

For further information, please go to www.stjohneyehospital.org

If you would like to make a donation to help fund the work of the hospital please mark and send cheques to:

St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital
C/- St John Ambulance Australia (Victoria)
PO Box 573
MOUNT WAVERLEY VICTORIA 3149
AUSTRALIA

or call: 1300 360 455