MrBeast, whose name is Jimmy Donaldson, worked with ophthalmologists around the world to give sight to 1,000 people

YouTube star MrBeast is helping 1,000 people see a little more clearly.

Jimmy Donaldson — known to his followers as “MrBeast” — shared a video on his YouTube channel on Saturday revealing that he helped 1,000 blind or near-blind people see by paying for their cataract removal surgeries. The video, which was released on Saturday, has amassed 47 millions views as of Monday morning.

The 24-year-old YouTube sensation worked with Jeff Levenson, an ophthalmologist and surgeon based in Jacksonville, Florida, whose Gift of Sight program offers free cataract surgery to people who are legally blind and uninsured. He performed the first round of surgeries for Donaldson.

“More than half of the blindness in the world is caused by cataracts; a 10-minute surgery, at a material cost of less than $100 in resource-poor places, cures it forever,” Levenson explains in a statement to PEOPLE.

“In the days and weeks after my own cataract surgery, I was stunned by how bright and beautiful and vivid the world was,” Levenson said in an interview with CNN. “But I was shocked by the idea that there are hundreds of millions, probably 200 million people around the world, who are blind or nearly blind from cataracts and who don’t have access to the surgery.”

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