Girl in Madagascar sees again with special prescription glasses
In February, I wrote about a little girl in Madagascar with such severe and unusual myopia (nearsightedness) that there was no help available to her in her own country. This morning we received these photos of 8-year-old Andoniaina (Ando for short) wearing her new glasses specially made for her in Canada. Ando wearing her new […]
Vancouver Talmud Torah – Compassion in Action
Here at Seva we call the acts of generosity and kindness that all our donors and partners in the field display, on a daily basis, compassion in action. Vancouver Talmud Torah’s Grade 7 class call those same acts a mitzvah. A new program at Talmud Torah, called The Mitzvah of Valuing Philanthropy, has students researching […]
Mitchell Elementary School students give the gift of sight
Seva Canada Board Member, Susan Erdmann, writes: Prior to my leaving for Nepal in March, I gave my presentation on the Tibetan surgical eye camps to a class of 11 year olds (5th graders) at Mitchell Elementary in Richmond, BC. It was wonderful how well they responded to the visuals and story around eye camps […]
