Week 45: The kindness of strangers – a story
What would you do if you found someone’s personal property?
Would you try your hardest to find the owner?
Here’s a story of a kind person who found a memory card for a camera while he was hiking in the woods near McMaster University.
On an overgrown, unmarked trail, Jason Baker spotted a memory chip, muddy and partly buried in the forest floor.
He took it home, carefully cleaned it off and was amazed to find that it still worked.
Then the real detective work began. The only image on the card that gave any clue was the following picture taken in 2009 at Seva Canada’s AGM and showing Heather Wardle, Seva’s Development Director, wearing a Seva name badge with the logo.
L to R, Heather Wardle of Seva Canada, Dr. Chundak Tenzing of Seva Foundation, Richard Edwards of Planeterra and Erin Buttler of Gap Adventures
Jason spent some time enhancing the photo to zoom in on the name badge, then contacted Seva Canada.
Here at Seva, we were able to identify the owner as Richard Edwards, Senior Advisor, Planeterra Foundation — the charitable arm of Gap Adventures and a big supporter of Seva Canada’s eye care programs in Tibet, Cambodia and Tanzania.
