What would you do if you found someone's personal property? Would you try your hardest to find the owner? Here's a story of a kind person who found a memory card for a camera while he was hiking in the woods near McMaster University. On an overgrown, unmarked trail, Jason Baker spotted a memory chip, muddy and partly buried in the forest floor. He took it home, carefully cleaned it off and was amazed to find that it still worked. Then the real detective work began. The only image on the card that gave any clue was the following picture taken in 2009 at Seva Canada's AGM and showing Heather Wardle, Seva's Development Director, wearing a Seva name badge with the logo. the only image from the memory chip that had clues

L to R, Heather Wardle of Seva Canada, Dr. Chundak Tenzing of Seva Foundation, Richard Edwards of Planeterra and Erin Buttler of Gap Adventures

Jason spent some time enhancing the photo to zoom in on the name badge, then contacted Seva Canada. Here at Seva, we were able to identify the owner as Richard Edwards, Senior Advisor, Planeterra Foundation -- the charitable arm of Gap Adventures and a big supporter of Seva Canada's eye care programs in Tibet, Cambodia and Tanzania. Richard said, "It's rare that you find a perfect stranger willing to make any effort at all to return your lost belongings to you, even those that have huge sentimental value, but to go above and beyond the way Jason did brightened my whole week in an unexpected way - the best way." This is a fitting story for Seva's "Random Acts of Seva" campaign as we count down to our 30th Anniversary. Share your stories of kindness and service on Seva's Facebook page.

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