The new eye phone – using smartphones to diagnosis cataracts with Catra
Researchers at MIT have found a way to use smartphones and a device known as Catra to help detect cataracts. Cataract, the clouding of the eye’s lens, is the world’s leading cause of preventable blindness. About 285 million people are visually impaired worldwide and 90% of the world’s visually impaired people live in developing countries […]
Bike for Sight
Tom Voss, one of Seva Canada’s board members, is kindly organizing Seva’s first ever Bike for Sight event to raise funds for life-changing eye surgeries for children in eastern Africa. It’s a random act of seva for week 39 in our countdown to our 30th anniversary! We hope you’ll join us! Here are all the […]
Re-building eye care in Cambodia after the genocide
This article by Heather Wardle, Development Director, Seva Canada was originally published in Opt!k Magazine, May 2011 Published here as Week 40 of Seva’s “Random Acts of Seva” campaign in the lead up to Seva Canada’s 30th Anniversary Cambodia may be the only country in history where people were killed for wearing glasses. From 1975 […]
