To support cataract operations in Africa, donate to International Islamic Youth League to provide sight-restoring surgery, train local healthcare professionals, and build sustainable eye care systems in underserved communities across the continent. Donating to these charities helps individuals overcome lifelong disabilities, escape the cycle of poverty, and participate more fully in society

How Your Donation Helps

Restores Sight:

A simple surgery can reverse blindness caused by cataracts, allowing people to see again and regain their independence. 

Improves Lives:

Restored vision improves a person's ability to work, care for their family, and engage with their community, leading to a more stable and prosperous future. 

Builds Sustainable Care:

Organizations work to improve health services and build local eye care systems so that preventable blindness can be addressed long-term. 

Fights Poverty:

By restoring sight, individuals can overcome a major barrier to employment and economic independence, directly combating poverty.

Cataract Surgery

Every restored sight means a regained life. Join us in bringing the gift of vision to those in need, illuminating their world, and empowering them with the possibilities they need.

It's not just about the physical act of seeing; it's about restoring their connection to the beauty

Africa faces a significant challenge. Despite the prevalence of cataract-related vision loss, the continent has the lowest cataract surgical rate globally. This disparity underscores the pressing issue of limited access to cataract surgery in Africa.

How is International Islamic Youth League responding?

International Islamic Youth League swiftly responds to the challenge of visual impairment by providing Cataract Surgery. Through skilled medical professionals and modern facilities, we aim to restore vision for those affected by cataracts. Your support enables us to bring clarity and light into their lives, allowing them to envision a brighter future. 

Your Gift. Their Vision

With each donation, you bring the world into sharper focus for those facing the challenges of vision loss. Together, we're rewriting new stories for their lives, providing the invaluable gift of sight.

Blindness is debilitating, particularly in the developing world. This project will help restore sight to (10,000) individuals blind patients in Sierra Leone, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Chad and Democratic Republic of the Congo. Each county (1,666) Blindness patients with their sight regained, they will return to work and contribute to their families’ income 

Cataract is a medical condition in which the lens of the eye became progressively opaque, resulting in blurring of vision. It has been estimated that cataracts accounted for 47.8% of the 37 million people who were blind worldwide. A significant number of those affected with cataracts leave in rural areas, and most are indigent (those that cannot afford to pay for medical services). Most of these patients resort to begging along the streets seeking assistance.

This number is likely to increase substantially, as approximately 600,000 Africans become blind from cataract each year. Despite the enormity of the problem, few cataract operations are performed in Africa. The cataract surgery rate (CSR), a measure of the volume of cataract surgery performed in a population, is about 500 per million per year in Africa. To tackle cataract blindness, the International Islamic Youth League initiative, a program involving the  Federation of Muslim Associations FIMA World Health Organization, the International Agency for Prevention of Blindness, and various governmental and non-governmental organizations, aims to increase the CSR in Africa to about 2000 per million per year.

The cataract services in Sierra Leone, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Chad and Democratic Republic of the Congo has grown to a high level and this can be attributed to increased awareness, creating the access and making the cataract services available at an affordable cost including a large portion of it being provided free. This process has increased the awareness enormously in the community. Now the patients voluntarily seek cataract surgery both at eye camps and at base hospitals. The need now is to replicate similar model for the emerging eye conditions