Celebrating five charities and decades of global impact
At Global Impact, we’ve spent the last six and a half decades working alongside leading charities that are experts at addressing global causes. From helping refugees after World War II to providing care at the height of the AIDS epidemic, our charity partners have spent decades responding to and shaping history; honing their expertise to […]
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SEE INTERNATIONAL: MSICS Training in Accra, Ghana
In June of 2021, SEE supported a Level 2 Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery (MSICS) Training Course in Accra, Ghana that lasted the whole month! The physician being trained, Dr. Egbula Eni, traveled from Nigeria to improve his surgical skills and learn the MSICS technique from SEE’s partner, Dr. Thomas Baah. Dr. Eni spent the […]
Global education access on the rise
Education varies from country to country, so global education is an expansive topic. Students learn key vocational skills and expand their future opportunities by developing empathy, fostering confidence and nurturing their academics in a structured setting to improve their quality of life. Investment in education will yield significant returns for society. It is key that […]
Children’s Sight Week 2021
In August of 2021, SEE held its annual Children’s Sight Week event, during which our Santa Barbara Vision Care clinics put a priority on the screening and treatment of the children in our community, resulting in 64 eye screenings and 32 comprehensive eye exams for the young patients. Among the children who received care was […]
SEE INTERNATIONAL: Children’s Sight Week 2021
In August of 2021, SEE held its annual Children’s Sight Week event, during which our Santa Barbara Vision Care clinics put a priority on the screening and treatment of the children in our community, resulting in 64 eye screenings and 32 comprehensive eye exams for the young patients.Among the children who received care was six-year-old […]
SEE INTERNATIONAL: Restoring Sight in India
Prem Thapa ji is a well-known street artist from Nepal who recently had his life transformed by the gift of sight. Premji had dedicated his entire life to his passion for art, sharing his love for painting, literature, and music with his hometown of Palpa before leaving to attend art school in India. After attending […]
Learn how SEE International made their virtual fundraiser a success
Virtual fundraisers certainly present a number of logistical and technical challenges, and we are all missing the face-to-face community and connection building that were so important to in-person fundraisers. However, it remains critical that we find ways to garner donor support for our causes amongst the many other competing charitable interests. The greatest resource to […]
SEE INTERNATIONAL: The Transformation of Nacor: Then and Now
“Now I feel calm. I am certain that my boy will be successful in school and also in life.” – Carmen, Nacor’s mother In 2017, our SEE volunteer team met Nacor, a young boy born with cataracts in both eyes, in a rural town outside of Tarapoto, Peru, Nacor struggled to see anything more than […]
SEE INTERNATIONAL: A Dream of Sight
Recently, our medical teams had the privilege of caring for José Rosas, a 56-year-old father and husband from the rural village of Canan, Peru. José had lost his sight, and could no longer work or provide for his family. As a result, he was unable to pay his mortgage, and his family was facing possible […]
