'My eye sight is back! i can see you're wearing a blue shirt'

The man had for years been completely blind in both eyes.  "All my cattle were stolen by people who took advantage of my blindness. Although I could not see those people, I know their voices and I will now be going around to collect my cattle," *Nlebesi Modisa said.

Modisa is one of nearly 1,200 patients from selected villages in Botswana that a group of four ophthalmologists and six paramedics from India's Sankara Nethralaya Chennai operated on to remove cataracts in a campaign dubbed 'Save an Eye 2011'. A cataract is a clouding that develops in the crystalline lens of the eye or in its envelope, varying in degree from slight to complete opacity and obstructing the passage of light.  While it generally afflicts people in their 60s and above, a cataract can affect younger people as well.