Would you give a brief walk through the Seva project?

I have documented several Seva projects around the world. Seva is an international organization whose mission is to eliminate preventable blindness around the world with a strong program in gender equality and equal access to care. Their method is to partner up with an existing local facility providing them with the funding and expertise to conduct eye care programs with the mandate that hopefully within 10 years Seva can move on and the facility will have become self sustaining on their own.

My work with Seva involves documenting their facilities and the work in these facilities; where the funding is going to and what differences they are making in the lives of the locals. I always enjoy traveling to areas that are conducting "eye camps". These are remote regions that do not have a permanent primary eye care facility and we actually bring the full clinic and medical personal into these areas for a couple of days to look after the people in the region. We have just returned from an amazing trip in Humla, Western Nepal in Oct conducting a 3-day eye camp on the northwestern foothills of the Himalayas. We had fundraised for this eye camp since March 2011. Our facilitators in Nepal broadcast the dates of the eye camp over the FM radio throughout the villages located in the foothills of the Himalayas. We then traveled up and met up with our Nepalese medical team in Simikot. We set up camp at the Citta hospital there. Over a 3 day period, we saw over 900 people and conducted 80 eye surgeries, handed out hundreds of bottles of eye drops and over 800 pairs of sunglasses and reading glasses. I was there not only to document the eye camp but also the lives of the people living there. Stories of the joys and simplicity of their lives along with the harshness of their living conditions at high altitude with no running water or electricity. It was an incredible experience.

To read more about the Humla eye camp visit http://bit.ly/xNSAf3