Imagine if you were blind from cataracts and lived in a village deep in the Himalayan region of Tibet. The world has gone dark. You can no longer see faces of loved ones. You have no way to cook or feed yourself. There are no seeing eye dogs, beeping crosswalks, or eye surgeons to help you.

Tibetan landscape. Photo courtesy of Gary Hahn

In Tibet's under-served mountainous region, seeing an eye doctor would have likely meant a multi-day trek to Lhasa. It would cost you many months salary pay to have cataracts removed. For too many, this means a mother, father, grandparent, or even child could not have cataracts removed and would remain blind. Since the beginning, Seva has already tried to help the most vulnerable and has reached out to remote areas where there is no care. Now, in Tibet, people needing eye care but who have no way to travel to get it, can take Seva's new bus on the Roof of the World!

Seva\'s new bus in Tibet which transports blind people to and from hospital

This bus will travel to remote mountain villages, picking up blind patients and transporting them, free of charge, to a hospital in the city of Lhasa staffed by local Seva trained eye surgeons. There they will have cataracts removed and their vision restored! And after they have had their sight checked and all their post-operative care, they will be transported back to their villages. A magic bus! Thanks to Seva's generous donors like you, this bus will help us better reach the underserved and restore sight.