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  • Anjana and her Grandmother

    Small Vancouver NGO Has a Big Impact on the Lives of Women and Girls Around the World

    Seva Canada showcases their research and award-winning gender equity strategies with the global community as a sponsor of the Women Deliver Conference, June 3 – 6
  • Nicola Wealth Management Presents Motown Meltdown 2019

    A night of music and dancing in support of sight.
  • March 2018: Blindness is a Women's Issue

    In honour of International Women's Day, Seva Canada is launching "Equal Right to Sight", a multi-media campaign advocating for gender equity in the treatment of blindness.
  • BC ophthalmologist, Dr. Martin Spencer receives Sovereign Medal for Volunteers

     Seva Canada Board Member and volunteer heralded for over 30 years of service to restore sight and prevent blindness for people in need in developing countries.

  • September 2015: Seva Canada Receives International Vision Award for Restoring Sight to Millions in Developing World

    With more than 39 million people suffering from blindness worldwide and 80 per cent preventable or treatable, Vancouver-based international development organization Seva Canada is recognized for making a major difference around the globe. Seva has restored sight to 4 million people over the past 32 years and is now being internationally recognized for those efforts with the Antonio Champalimaud Vision Award.

  • March 2015: Nichola Wealth Mangement presents Motown Meltdown in support of Seva Canada

    For the first time ever, Motown Meltdown will take to the legendary Commodore Ballroom stage in support of Seva's eye care work - giving the power of sight to those in need through the gift of song.

  • September 2014: Seva Canada celebrates World Sight Day by Dining in the Dark with live music by Jim Byrnes

    Seva Canada’s second annual Dine in the Dark World Sight Day sold out celebration will feature live music by the legendary, Juno award-winning, Jim Byrnes. Guests will experience dinner, musical entertainment and conversation all without their sense of sight. Every ticket purchased for the event will provide a cataract surgery for someone who is  needlessly blind in some of the poorest parts of the world.

  • June 2012: GROWN’S new sustainable wooden eyewear helps the environment and with partner Seva Canada, also helps the blind

    GROWN ® Eyewear, is a new, innovative eyewear company with a social conscience. GROWN is launching their sustainable wood and bamboo eyewear collection that also ‘does good’ this June in Canada. For every pair of glasses sold GROWN will fund eye testing for 12 children or for every 4 pairs sold GROWN will fund one sight-restoring cataract surgery in the developing world through their GROWN Vision™ project and their giving partner Seva Canada.

  • September 2011: Delta Optical gives the gift of sight to children in eastern Africa

    This October, Delta Optical will be donating $30 from every pair of eye glasses sold  towards pediatric eye care in Tanzania, Malawi and Madagascar where cataracts are one of the leading causes of blindness in children.

  • August 2011: Bike for Sight

    On Saturday September 17, a scenic 62-kilometre bike ride through the Cowichan Valley will help restore sight for children in eastern Africa. Bike for Sight will raise funds for Seva Canada to provide life-changing cataract surgeries for children in Tanzania, Burundi, Malawi and Madagascar where the incidence of pediatric cataracts is 10x what it is in Canada. A short operation prevents an average of 50 years of blindness and allows a child to go to school and reach their full potential.

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