Where we work
One mission. 53 countries.
From a single Mobile Clinic in Pakistan in 1989 to hospitals, mobile clinics, and classrooms across Africa and Asia. This is where your giving goes to work.
Since 1989
Reach that holds up.
Mobile camps. Permanent hospitals. Training colleges. School screenings. One geographic strategy.
Our footprint
Six on the map. Fifty-two in the record.
Permanent hospitals concentrate where the need is densest. Mobile camps extend our reach far past where buildings can follow.
Permanent infrastructure
Six countries where eye care stays.
Every hospital open every working day. Sorted by network size.
SudanOur largest network — flagship Makkah Eye Complex in Khartoum, operating since 1995.
Explore our work in Sudan
PakistanWhere it began — Al-Ibrahim, Karachi opened in 1990. Newest addition: Naseerabad, 2025.
Explore our work in Pakistan
BangladeshAl-Noor Dhaka opened in 1994; now five hospitals across the country.
Explore our work in Bangladesh
YemenCare continuing through conflict — Mukalla, Aden, Marib and Jibla.
Explore our work in Yemen
NigeriaMakkah Eye Hospitals in Kano, Bauchi and Ibadan (newest, 2025).
Explore our work in Nigeria
NigerMakkah Eye Hospital in Maradi, serving since 2009.
Explore our work in NigerFrom the field
What morning looks like.
By 7am, the courtyard at Al-Ibrahim Eye Hospital Karachi begins to fill. Some patients have come from Sindh. Some from Baluchistan. Some have been waiting since before dawn.
Surgery, consultation, glasses: all free, all year, all because someone, somewhere, gave.
The hospital opened in 1990. It has not closed since. Every working day, hundreds of patients come through these doors. Every working day, sight is restored to someone who could not afford to lose it.
Al-Ibrahim Eye Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan. Operating since 1990, 3.3M+ outpatient visits. 274,561 surgeries to date.
mobile eye treatment & surgery clinics
Where we visit, not just where we stay.
Beyond the six countries above, mobile eye treatment & surgery clinics have reached places eye care wouldn’t otherwise arrive. They cross borders to treat patients in villages too small, too remote, or too underserved for permanent infrastructure.
Afghanistan
Benin
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Congo
Côte d’Ivoire
Djibouti
DR Congo
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea Bissau
Guinea Conakry
India
Jordan
Kenya
Iraq
Lebanon
Malawi
Maldives
Mali
Mauritania
Morocco
Nepal
Philippines
Rwanda
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Sri Lanka
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Uganda
Zambia
ZimbabweHow we choose
Why here.
We don’t pick countries. We pick places where the need, the access, and the partnerships line up.
01. NEED
Where preventable blindness is highest.
Cataracts and refractive error blind millions in regions where the cure is well-understood and the infrastructure isn’t. Our hospitals concentrate where these conditions are most common and least treated.
02. ACCESS
Where eye care is hardest to reach.
A working ophthalmology unit can be a six-hour drive, a passport, or a salary out of reach. We site permanent care where local options run out, and we run camps where even the hospital is too far.
03. PARTNERSHIP
Where local partners can sustain the work.
Every hospital is built with local health authorities and staffed by people from the country it serves. Three of our six hospital countries also host training colleges. The infrastructure stays because the people who run it do too.
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