A Billion Reasons to See
How a small Vancouver charity is opening a new front in the global fight against preventable and treatable vision loss, including blindness.
In Lima and Iquitos, I follow Seva Canada and its Peruvian partner as they work to bring eye care to people who have waited years for treatment.
The first thing Hilda did the morning after surgery was sit outside her house in the Peruvian Amazon and look at her grandchildren. She had not seen their faces clearly in ten years. They had been growing up at the blurred edges of her vision, and now here they were: their features settling into shapes she knew. Everything was still a little out of focus, the operated eye adjusting, but it was there. She looked at her husband and confirmed what she had always known. He was handsome.