24 hours earlier this baby girl was blind; now she can see. Just one of the many success stories behind the Christian Blind Mission’s Sydney-Anglican-supported ‘10,000 Miracles’ campaign.

CBMI's 10,000 Miracles campaign has raised funds that are now giving the gift of sight to people in some of the poorest countries in the world.

When four-month-old baby girl, Salim, arrived at a local Tanzanian hospital her eyes were weeping from cataracts.

She could barely open her eyes and her mother, Omari, wiped the tears away with her skirt.

Salim underwent the 12-minute cataract operation conducted in a local hospital by Dr Richard Bowman, a Christian paediatric ophthalmologic surgeon from the UK.

Within 24 hours of operating on Salim, Dr Bowman removed the patches from her eyes.

He examined each eye, shining a torch into her pupils that were whitened by cataracts.

"Because she is young her eyes will adjust and she'll have good vision," Dr Bowman says.

Omari and her husband were overjoyed at the good news and held Salim proudly for photographs, as if she were a new born baby.

In the month of October, Australians were asked to dig deep and donate $32, which gives one person the gift of sight by enabling them to have the simple 12-minute cataract operation.

Sydney Anglicans combined with people across Australia to prove that miracles do happen by helping to raise money for 47,423 operations.

The result is almost five times the 10,000 target of CBMI's 10,000 Miracles campaign.

John Jeffries, National Director for CBMI is delighted with the result.

"We feel the strength of God's love through your generosity and recently had a team travel to Tanzania who were privileged to see the money raised by Australians for the 10,000 Miracles campaign being put to work immediately," Mr Jeffries says.

CBMI's Director of Supporter Partnerships, Jonathan Krause, says the campaign has helped people as young as baby Salim and as old as 100-year-old Muhudin Bofu whose sight deteriorated several years ago due to old age.

“He's an amazing guy,” he says.

“He came in on a "miracles bus', full of people from the bush who were too poor to afford their own transport to the hospital.”

Mr Krause says Muhudin's successful operation has helped two lives.

"When senior people are blind, they often need a grandchild to look after them. The kids can't go to school because they are leading these people around the community all day," he says.