Category: Eye Surgery

Thanks to you: Eileen Maharaj

A Sunday School class at Grandview Baptist Church (now Grandview Calvary Baptist Church) in Vancouver was all the inspiration that then-teenager Eileen Maharaj needed to support Operation Eyesight. ā€œMy teacher regularly had ā€˜mission momentsā€™ in our class and one of those moments was about Operation Eyesight,ā€ explains Eileen. ā€œIt inspired my imagination. Blindness is something… Continue reading Thanks to you: Eileen Maharaj

Thanks to you: Don McIver

If you live in Campbell River, BC, you might open your mail one day to find a greeting card and gift from an enthusiastic Operation Eyesight supporter… even if you donā€™t know him personally. For the past 30-plus years, Don McIver has celebrated local milestones by giving friends, strangers and organizations like Rotary and church… Continue reading Thanks to you: Don McIver

We must see through their eyes (Part 2 of 2)

On May 25, I wrote about why quality is so important to Operation Eyesight. In case youā€™re wondering why Iā€™m writing about this now, itā€™s because too many people are afraid to get the help they need. For years now, weā€™ve known that next to cataracts, the second leading cause of avoidable blindness in developing… Continue reading We must see through their eyes (Part 2 of 2)

We must see through their eyes (Part 1 of 2)

Have you ever wondered why Operation Eyesight is so big on quality? Itā€™s a fair question. Why insist on high international standards for poor people? Isnā€™t just about anything better than what they have? To answer that, picture a tribal woman in a remote part of India, who is going blind from cataracts. Sheā€™s a… Continue reading We must see through their eyes (Part 1 of 2)