Here's a story of Seva's work in Tibet. Tsamje, a 75-year-old Tibetan woman from Lhasa, had no children and lived alone with her cat and dog. With almost no vision, her life was a desperate struggle. She had a cataract in her right eye that was so dense that she had been blind in that eye for two years. Her left eye was practically blind from corneal scarring. As with most blind people, Tsamje lived in poverty, barely subsisting on a small government subsidy. She ate mostly tsampa, the traditional Tibetan dish of roasted barley flour mixed with tea, because it was all that she could manage to prepare for herself. Unfortunately, because she couldn’t see her food, she didn’t realize that her tsampa was contaminated with mouse droppings and only discovered this after a visiting neighbor told her. Tsamje learned about the eye care program from a server at a tea shop. The server’s husband had been blind until he had his sight restored through cataract surgery. Tasmje went to the Seva-supported eye unit at Menzikhang, the traditional Tibetan hospital, to have her eyes examined. She was so afraid that she would have to pay for treatment that she wept openly in front of the doctor. Tsamje had free cataract surgery and the day after her operation she could see again and was speechless with happiness.  She returned home in her new free glasses and spent hours in front of her window gazing in wonder at her neighbours and neighborhood, rejoicing in her vision and the colourful world she had been missing. She says with her glasses “she can see forever”. Each year, Seva restores sight to about 7000 people in Tibet through eye surgery and provides many thousands more with other eye care such as glasses and treatment of eye infections. Learn more about Seva's work in Tibet and how you can help at http://www.seva.ca/sevaintibet.htm