Seva in the News

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"Her Sight Is Worth It" Campaign Coverage

"Eye Care Charity Sees a Solution In Sight" by Elaine O'Connor, The Province BC Without Borders blog

"Blindness Solution in Sight" by Elaine O'Connor, The Province

"Contest has vision in sight" by Ivana Pelisek, Interrobang & The Argosy

"Seva Canada "Her Sight" video competition supports gender equity in eye health," Vision 2020

• Reuters
• Blindnews.org
• MSNBC
• EarthTimes
• Winnipeg Arts Council
• April Reign, BreadandRoses blog
• NewsBlaze
• Planetterra
• OpenSalon
• Rabble.ca
• The Argosy
  

• Sys-Con Media, Canadian Business, HPCWire, Inform.com, PR Log, PR-Inside.org, Corporate Media News, Studio 5, Business & Finance News, Scottrade, Investor Central, Netscape, BNet, Yahoo, Infoclip.ca,
  

• Evolution 1079FM
• The Express, Shaw TV
• News 1130, by Sonia Aslam
• NCRA
  

The Gift of Sight by Kerry Gold, Yahoo Canada
About Dr. Paul Courtright and KCCO's work in Africa.

Programs tackle high rate of blindness among women

Ocular Surgery News, US Edition, September 25, 2008
by Erin L. Boyle
They are mothers, daughters and grandmothers, and they share one health factor in common: Around the world, two out of every three people who are blind from preventable causes are women. Read more 

Ocular Surgery News, US Edition, September 25, 2008by Erin L. BoyleThey are mothers, daughters and grandmothers, and they share one health factor in common: Around the world, two out of every three people who are blind from preventable causes are women.  

CHAI TIME, CHANNEL M: JUNE 6, 2008
An interview with Seva's African partners, Dr. Paul Courtright and Ms. Margaret Kessy of the Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology. NOTE: The introduction is in Hindi, but the interview is in English.

2008 News articles:

• "Carpenter's bequest will assist the world's blind", The Province, June 11, 2008
• "Corporate Giver: Questions for Larrty Brilliant", September 3, 2008

On December 16, 2007 Seva Canada was featured on Global TV. Here is the video:

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Click here for a Global Ophthalmology Special Focus article on the work of Dr. Martin Spencer. Dr Spencer has been performing volunteer work in Nepal, India,Tibet and Africa for close to 20 years, both performing surgery and teaching different surgical techniques.

Click here for a Special Focus article on Dr. Paul Courtright and "Helping Africa Help Itself".  Having Western-trained ophthalmologists fly in, do a couple dozen surgeries and then leave is not the best way to reduce cataract blindness in the developing world. What’s far more useful is to help ophthalmologic services in developing countries better manage the cataract removal resources they already have so they can perform a larger number of surgeries, in a sustainable way. This was a key message from Paul Courtright DrPH, an ophthalmic epidemiologist who lives in Tanzania and is helping improve cataract surgery systems throughout eastern Africa...