Get Involved

Seva is extremely grateful to our kind volunteers who help bring sight by fundraising in their own communities. Here's a list of some of the events that our supporters have held to raise money for Seva's sight programs:

• birthday parties
• slide shows
• lectures
• dinners
• bake sales and book sales
• bottle collections
• concerts
• fashion shows
• dance performances

If you have an idea for fundraising in your community, we’d love to hear from you and would be delighted to help you make it happen! Please contact Heather Wardle at fundraising@seva.ca or call 604-713-6622.

Sell calendars

Each year Seva sells calendars to raise money for our eye care projects in Asia and Africa. We would like to offer you an opportunity to assist in Seva’s fundraising by selling calendars in your community or business.

There are two options: you can choose to donate all the proceeds back to Seva by selling the calendar at a suggested retail price of $16.99 (or $18 including PST). When all the proceeds are donated back to Seva, the sale of just 2 calendars can fund a sight-restoring surgery.

Or, you can raise money for your group by purchasing the calendars at the non-returnable wholesale price of $8.50 each (shipping and handling, plus PST in BC), and selling them for $16.99 each.

If you would like to sell calendars in your community, or if you know of a business which would like to sell Seva products, please contact Paula Ford at 604-713-6622 or toll-free 1-877-460-6622, or email her at paula@seva.ca. We will be happy to discuss these options with you.

Help in the office

Join the Seva team! We're continually seeking volunteers who can staff Seva tables at festivals and special events, write, edit, or help with data entry, mailings, filing or packaging merchandise. If you are interested in volunteering, please email us at admin@seva.ca and list the skills you're offering to share. All help is appreciated and we are never without jobs to be done. Many thanks!

Overseas opportunities

Unlike some health care charities, Seva does not send teams of volunteer doctors to our partners in the developing world because this is neither cost-effective nor does it create sustainable eye care systems.

It is often both more economical and more suitable in terms of eye care techniques for our partners to receive training from our other partners, for instance for Tibetans to receive training in Nepal.

That said, in special circumstances our partners do welcome training that they cannot otherwise receive such as in the following areas:

Clinical Volunteers in:

• Ophthalmology
• Ophthalmic Nursing
• Ophthalmic Assisting
• Optometry
• Anesthesiology
• Pediatric Ophthalmology
• Phacoemulsification or small-incision sutureless surgery
• Squint/Oculoplasty
• Vitreo-retinal Surgery
• Laboratory Technicians

Non-Clinical Volunteers in:

• Training Program curriculum development
• Hospital Finance & Accounts Evaluation
• Hospital & Health Management
• Management Consultation
• Eyeglass Manufacturing and Distribution

GET INVOLVED - Volunteer Questionnaire

To let us know a bit more about you and how you would like to help Seva serve others, please complete our Volunteer Questionnaire and email it to admin@seva.ca or fax it to 604-733-4292.