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Cataract is responsible for 48% of world blindness, which represents about 18 million people. This leading cause of blindness can be surgically removed to restore the vision. Keeping In view the above background, Al-Basar International Foundation founded in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1989 as a NGO to render eye care services in countries of Africa and Asia through free Eye Camps and establishment of Eye Hospitals. Since then the organization worked in more than 40 countries of Africa and Asia and conducted nearly 750 free eye camps. In those Eye Camps nearly 2.5 million people had been screened, 225.000 were operated and 600.000 spectacles had been distributed 3 Al-Basar International Foundation introduced their services in Sudan through free eye camps in Khartoum and Kadabas in 1993. Within the span of 15 years, the foundation conducted 175 free eye camps, established six Eye Hospitals in the country through which large numbers of people had been benefited