{"id":466424,"date":"2026-10-15T04:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T04:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/466424\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T04:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T04:12:08","slug":"east-texas-tonight-nonprofit-founder-shares-insight-into-giving-back-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/466424\/","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Tonight: Nonprofit founder shares insight into giving back in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Like all our senses, our sight is something most of us take for granted. But one East Texan has spent his career giving the gift of vision to those without it in western Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In this edition of East Texas Tonight, we\u2019re speaking with the founder of Sight.org Lewis Swann about his journey to the faith that fuels his work and the difficulties he\u2019s overcome to help the less fortunate.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Like all our senses, our sight is something most of us take for granted.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26918,44232,158800,7757,133173,55554,158801,23536,158798,3350,1968,158797,27,29,28,158799],"class_list":["post-466424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-africa","tag-blindness","tag-cataracts","tag-christianity","tag-east-texas-tonight","tag-god","tag-hospital-ship","tag-jesus","tag-lewis-swann","tag-ministry","tag-religion","tag-sight-org","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-visually-impared"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}