Seva Canada is an international eye-care nonprofit based in Vancouver, Canada that has been preventing blindness and restoring sight in the developing world for over 27 years.
Seva works with local partners in 7 countries -- Nepal, Tibet, India, Tanzania, Guatemala, Cambodia and Egypt -- to train local eye care specialists and create sustainable eye-care programs to serve communities for generations to come. A 15-minute cataract surgery costing $50 Cdn will restore someone's sight and change that person's life forever. It's a quick fix in a world of complex problems and is one of the most cost-effective health interventions.
We hope this blog will be a place where our overseas partners and travelling Seva Canada folks can share their stories of Seva's sight programs.
I'm Heather Wardle and I have the great privilege to work for Seva Canada. I'm off to Tanzania on September 24th where I'll be attending a major conference on Childhood Blindness and seeing the programs at our amazing partner, the Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology. Here's a few photos of their work.
![eye-patients-registering-at-a-direct-referral-site2 Eye patients registering at a Direct Referral Site](http://sevacanada.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/eye-patients-registering-at-a-direct-referral-site2.jpg?w=300)
![cataract-cases-1-086 This little baby had bilateral cataract surgery](/sites/default/files/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/cataract-cases-1-086.jpg?w=262)
![new-orcea1 Here's KCCOs Resource Cente where I'll be typing my updates](/sites/default/files/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/new-orcea1.jpg?w=300)
![eye-patients-registering-at-a-direct-referral-site2 Eye patients registering at a Direct Referral Site](http://sevacanada.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/eye-patients-registering-at-a-direct-referral-site2.jpg?w=300)
Eye patients registering at a Direct Referral Site
![cataract-cases-1-086 This little baby had bilateral cataract surgery](/sites/default/files/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/cataract-cases-1-086.jpg?w=262)
This little baby had bilateral cataract surgery
![new-orcea1 Here's KCCOs Resource Cente where I'll be typing my updates](/sites/default/files/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/new-orcea1.jpg?w=300)
Here's KCCO's Resource Centre where I'll be typing my updates
Heather