Over the last three weeks, we have had a fantastic time celebrating Seva Canada’s 30th Anniversary with the amazing Larry Louie photo exhibition, Beyond the Darkness, and the wonderful reception with all our supporters and sponsors. What a great way to celebrate 30 years of restoring sight and preventing blindness!
We hope you enjoyed it as much as we have. Being able to celebrate giving the power of sight to over 3 million people in Nepal, India, Tibet, Egypt, Guatemala, Cambodia, Malawi, Madagascar and Tanzania with everyone who has been a part of Seva’s journey is something we will all remember. We were also very honoured to have the Minister of State for Multiculturalism, John Yap, join us at the reception. We appreciate his support and interest in Seva Canada’s mission and his letter of congratulations. Just last week MLA Eric Foster introduced Seva Canada to the BC Legislature! 
Seva Canada Executive Director & Minister of State for Multiculturalism Honourable John Yap
Special thanks to Larry Louie and his wife Joanna for all of their hard work and generosity putting the exhibition together and for Larry’s insightful speech at the reception, he’s clearly very talented and passionate about his work, making a difference and supporting Seva. We hope Larry’s wrist has recovered from signing all those poster prints for our donors. 
Photographer Larry Louie signing poster prints
And thank you to our sponsors QLT Inc., Pacific Medical Technologies, Assante Wealth Management, CI Investments, Georgia Straight and the Shaw Multicultural Channel for their support and making this event possible. We couldn’t have done it without all of you! 
Robert Butchofsky, President and CEO of QLT Inc. speaking at the reception
For those of you who attended the reception, you will remember the magical meditative music and sounds of quartz bowls, paiste gongs played long-time Seva supporter David Hickey. 
David Hickey at the Beyond the Darkness Reception
A lovely quote was recently shared with us “volunteers are not unpaid because they are not worthy but because they are priceless.” This could not be truer of Seva’s volunteers at the reception and in general. We couldn’t do everything we do if it wasn’t for our dedicated volunteers! Please stay tuned for more upcoming 30th Anniversary events; together we will continue to fight against avoidable blindness with compassion, innovation and dedication. 
Seva Canada's Board at the Beyond the Darkness Reception
All photos are courtesy of Ellen Crystal photography except for photo of David Hickey taken by Deanne Berman
