THE FLAMING ARROW: the story of
Art Jenkyns, Founder of Operation
Eyesight Universal
Today, Operation Eyesight Universal, based in Calgary, Alberta, is one of the world's six leading organizations dedicated to sight restoration and blindness prevention. In 1993, OEU was supporting 65 eye-care programs in twelve countries. During that year, OEU's partners restored sight to 113,885 people and provided general eye care to another 1,826,245.
The man who founded this highly respected organization is Art Jenkyns of Calgary. A family man and businessman with a lifelong involvement in the Scouting movement, he had no intention originally of touching the lives of countless people overseas. But he did.
Destiny chose him for that role. His own qualities - determination, enthusiasm, integrity and leadership ability -- first exercised as the young Scout leader of the Flaming Arrow patrol, helped him to fulfil that destiny.
Art Jenkyns has received fifteen awards and honors, including the Order of Canada, the Alberta Award of Excellence and Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Calgary. But his greatest reward by far has been his role in giving sight to the blind.
This is the story of the Flaming Arrow and of the club that he and a group of other business men started in a church basement more than thirty years ago. Together, man and organization became the gift of sight to millions of people around the world.
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Gerald W. Hankins. All rights reserved.
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