Al Basar International Foundation | |
Location: | Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia |
Origins: | Saudi Arabia |
Key People: | Adel Al Rushood |
Area Served: | Asia and Africa |
Product: | Ophthalmology |
Focus: | Cataract |
Method: | Free Eye Camps, Eye Hospitals and Eye Institutes |
Al-Basar International Foundation (Arabic: مؤسسة البصر الخيرية العالمية) is a non-profit international NGO based in Saudi Arabia. It was established in 1989[1] to work in the field of prevention and eradication/controlling of blindness & blinding diseases.[2]
It works together with King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center in Yemen, Bangladesh, Sudan, Nigeria and Pakistan to fight blindness and eye disease.[3] and performed surgeries in Sudan[4]
In a 2019 campaign funded by King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre in collaboration with Al Basar International Foundation, medical volunteers from Saudi Arabia met 8000 eye patients and performed 800 eye surgeries to remove cataract and glaucoma in Ibadan, Nigeria, as well as in Lafia in Nasarawa State, Nigeria.[5] [6]