This past Sunday, illmotion and its supporters raised $1215 for Seva’s programs at their Sunday School: Show & Shine 101 Car Show event. This money will give sight to 24 blind people through cataract surgeries. Illmotion, a Calgary group looking to breathe life back into the local car community and really expose the Canadian car scene worldwide, donated all the profits from the sale of their decals, lanyards and clothing to Seva as part of their desire and mission to give back. The funds raised will provide life-changing cataract surgeries that will not only affect  individuals but families and communities for generations to come just like it did for this young, blind Nepali mother in a remote Himalayan village. She had never seen the face of her youngest baby boy and could no longer walk on her own, prepare food or care for her children due to being blinded by cataracts in both of her eyes.

This woman in Nepal was blinded by cataracts and had her sight restored by Seva. In this photo, she is seeing her child for the first time.

Hearing of a Seva eye camp being held near Mt. Everest, the young blind mother, holding her young son and being led by hand by her husband, courageously walked for 10 days over treacherous mountain trails to get to the camp in hopes of seeing again. After two 10-minute cataract surgeries the young mother could finally, for the first time, see her baby boy. “You have given me divine eyes!” she exclaimed to Dr. Spencer who had performed the surgeries. Thank you illmotion, through your fundraising efforts you have not only opened the eyes of the Calgary car community but have given the gift of sight to so many!