It's easy to take the gift of sight for granted. Yet it's a gift many millions of people do not enjoy. In many cases, like that of Abdullah from China, the cause of blindness is easily curable cataracts.

Muslim Hands eye camps run in China (and other countries) over several days and treat up to 40 patients a day.

A day in the life of Lal Hussain, an MH sponsored orphan from Wazirabad, Pakistan. Lal attends the Muslim Hands School of Excellence in Wazirabad.

8 year-old Sabah and her younger brother are orphans sponsored via the MH Orphan Sponsorship Scheme. They live in Bhalwal, Pakistan with their grandmother and 14-year-old aunt.

Watch to see the MH Orphan Sponsorship Scheme in action and how sponsorship money is used to help give children the start they deserve.

Aisha's smoked fish business is thriving thanks to the small yet vital loan she received from MH two years ago. The Drammeh family is looking forward to similar business success with their poultry farm MH is helping setup for them…

A teacher and one of his students in The Gambia receive their very own bicycles as a part of the MH Great Charity Gift scheme. These bikes are not only a useful and prestigious item, they make an ideal gift for any family.

Aicha Kujabi is excited at the news that, thanks to a UK donor's sponsorship, she can now enrol at her local primary school. MH Orphan Sponsorship Scheme worker Osman is visiting her family to deliver their first monthly payment from her donor and the school Headmaster to ensure that the school will be able to provide sound feedback on her progress at school.

Watch Adam Abdul Aziz's daily battle in ensuring clean drinking water is delivered to remote villages in Kordofan, Sudan. Eagerly awaited wherever he arrives, his efforts save some needy people from walking 40km for their water!

Almost a year on from the Asian Earthquake, the MH aid camp in Tarikabad is still home to 5000 needy people. This short film looks at how MH staff and volunteers reacted swiftly to the emergency and helped build over 4000 homes during the winter.

Images of the work MH partners are carrying out on the ground in Lebanon helping those fleeing their homes in response to the Israeli invasion.

Muslim Hands is working inside Lebanon in partnership with the Lebanese NGO Islamic Welfare Association (ISWA).

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Muslim Hands is constructing thousands of semi-permanent shelter homes for survivors of the South Asia Earthquake.

Remarkably, these life saving homes cost only £150 each to construct and are built using materials reclaimed from the rubble and local labour.

Find out more about the scheme and the difference your donations can make.

To date, your generous donations for South Asia Earthquake relief work have totalled over £1,700,000. Muslim Hands has used this money to provide shelter for tens of thousands of people, provide medical care, warm clothing and blankets, temporary schools and housing, and to assist civil reconstruction works.

Work is ongoing and will continue to help survivors through the harsh winter and then to rebuild their lives. The footage here, taken by MH aid workers in Pakistan, shows some of the work carried out and ongoing projects.

In October 2005 Tariq Nasir (MH Projects Manager) traveled to Indonesia to oversee some of the reconstruction and rehabilitation work Muslim Hands has been carrying out following the tsunami.

He took a video camera with him and compiled this short documentary showing a selection of Muslim Hands' projects in Aceh, Indonesia -- work that has only been made possible by your generous and continued support.

The earthquake which hit Pakistan and Kashmir on 8th October, 2005 was the strongest in the region for 100 years. Around 80,000 people were killed and 4 million left homeless.

MH teams had mobilised within hours and the next day aid began flowing into affected areas. This video shows some of the work your support has enabled MH Pakistan to carry out, and the scale of the task that reamains. This video contains footage some may find disturbing.

An interview with Nadeem Tahir (MH Pakistan) and Shahid Bashir (MH Fundraising Manager) on Radio 786 in South Africa.

Nadeem has been coordinating operations in Pakistan and talks about some of the work being carried out. Shahid is leading the UK fundraising effort and talks about some of his experiences also.

A short video report from Ismail Abdullah (Muslim Hands Programme Director, Niger) highlighting some of Muslim Hands' work in Niger following the 2005 famine.

The famine affected large parts of West Africa, but Niger was worst hit and was the location for MH's initial work in the region.

An interview with Ismail Abdullah and other members of the Muslim Hands team on Radio 786 in South Africa.

The team, with Ismail Abdullah on the phone from Niger, discuss the background to the crisis, the severity of the famine and MH work on the ground to help victims.

Muslim Hands Green Ribbon Week is an annual initiative to increase awareness of the plight of innocent children of war and to raise funds to help suffering children all over the world. Across the country shops, businesses, schools and places of work have sold Green Ribbons to help a wide variety of children's causes.

This short clip was aired on various TV channels in the run-up to Green Ribbon Week to raise awareness of the cause.

Muslim Hands Green Ribbon Week is an annual initiative to increase awareness of the plight of innocent children of war and to raise funds to help suffering children all over the world. Across the country shops, businesses, schools and places of work sell green ribbons to help a wide variety of children's causes.

This presentation was shown at events around the UK and highlights the need for Green Ribbon Week, ways to help and how money raised will help improve the lives of thousands of children.

On the 26th December 2004, South East Asia was hit by a massive tsunami that caused the world's worst natural disaster in living memory. Over 300,000 people lost their lives and millions were left homeless and without livelihood.

Muslim Hands were, alhamdulillah, amongst the first on the ground, providing aid to thousands of victims. This video highlights some of the work Muslim Hands carried out in Indonesia, and shows the extent of the devastation there.

An interview with Aamer Naeem (MH Special Programmes Manager) on Radio 786 in South Africa.

Aamer was part of the Muslim Hands UK Forward Team that entered Iraq following the end of major hostilities in 2003 (MH has been working in Iraq since long before this date) and talks of some of the work carried out and problems faced.