Congratulations and deepest thanks to Jenna Goodhand, Jocelin On and Elizabeth Wong of "Love at First Sight" for winning Love in Action 2010 and for helping to restore sight and prevent blindness in Tibet. The funds that they and other Love in Action 2010 participants raised will support a Seva surgical eye camp in Tibet this summer and will bring sight to hundreds of people who are blind from cataracts.
The three University of Waterloo students were chosen at the Love in Action 2010 gala on March 17 in Toronto. The event was a great success with over 400 attendees.
Bruce Poon Tip, head of GAP Adventures, Theresa Laurico from Love in Action 2010, and Liz Manning from the Planeterra Foundation selected the winning team. Here's their video: http://loveinaction2010.org/teams/
The "Love at First Sight" team wins a voluntour trip for three to Peru, courtesy of GAP Adventures.
"Love at First Sight" asked people this: Close your eyes and recall all the things that bring you joy just simply by the act of seeing them. Now imagine losing that for life.
"The main focus of our campaign was to get as many people as possible to consider how blessed they are to have their eyesight while showing our love to those in our community and Tibet. We organized and attended 7 events and at every one of them we asked those who attended "What they would miss?" and had them write it on a whiteboard. We made videos with the photos we collected and uploaded them to a website we made and sent a call-out to the world to support the cause and send in photos of what they would miss. We received photos from as far as Hungary, Korea and Japan. In total we collected photos of over 250 people holding signs of what they would miss."
Seva Canada would like to thank Theresa Laurico, GAP Adventures, Planeterra Foundation and Elleven Productions for all they have done to gift the gift of sight to the blind in Tibet. We'll keep you posted about the eye camp, scheduled to take place this summer!
In the meantime, here's a video slideshow of Planeterra's 2009 Seva eye camp in Tibet:
Congratulations and deepest thanks to Jenna Goodhand, Jocelin On and Elizabeth Wong of "Love at First Sight" for winning Love in Action 2010 and for helping to restore sight and prevent blindness in Tibet. The funds that they and other Love in Action 2010 participants raised will support a Seva surgical eye camp in Tibet this summer and will bring sight to hundreds of people who are blind from cataracts.
The three University of Waterloo students were chosen at the Love in Action 2010 gala on March 17 in Toronto. The event was a great success with over 400 attendees.
Bruce Poon Tip, head of GAP Adventures, Theresa Laurico from Love in Action 2010, and Liz Manning from the Planeterra Foundation selected the winning team. Here's their video: http://loveinaction2010.org/teams/
The "Love at First Sight" team wins a voluntour trip for three to Peru, courtesy of GAP Adventures.
"Love at First Sight" asked people this: Close your eyes and recall all the things that bring you joy just simply by the act of seeing them. Now imagine losing that for life.
"The main focus of our campaign was to get as many people as possible to consider how blessed they are to have their eyesight while showing our love to those in our community and Tibet. We organized and attended 7 events and at every one of them we asked those who attended "What they would miss?" and had them write it on a whiteboard. We made videos with the photos we collected and uploaded them to a website we made and sent a call-out to the world to support the cause and send in photos of what they would miss. We received photos from as far as Hungary, Korea and Japan. In total we collected photos of over 250 people holding signs of what they would miss."
Seva Canada would like to thank Theresa Laurico, GAP Adventures, Planeterra Foundation and Elleven Productions for all they have done to gift the gift of sight to the blind in Tibet. We'll keep you posted about the eye camp, scheduled to take place this summer!
In the meantime, here's a video slideshow of Planeterra's 2009 Seva eye camp in Tibet:
