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Balak Drishti™ is a unique triple bottom line company with emphasis on Profit, People and Planet
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Balak Drishti™ is a unique triple bottom line company with emphasis on Profit, People and Planet
Enquiries
Call to ask any question
Being able to see clearly is as basic of a need as food, water, shelter, internet, access to affordable health care and having a phone. Blindness is #1 disability on the planet ( World Report on Vision and Lancet Report).
239M children (950M people) in the world have Uncorrected Refractive Error (URE) but their families cannot afford to buy them a simple pair of glasses. 20% of the 239M children are in India. Global cost of lost productivity due to myopia is estimated at $244 Billions.
Restoring Sight through Refractive Correction (URE) is one of the most efficient ways to alleviate poverty.
Children with Uncorrected Refractive Error (which means they need glasses) cannot even see the black board in the class or read the road signs. The world around them is nothing but a World of Blur. They cannot see the stars, the Milky Way, the mountains, or the birds we all with proper vision take for granted.
Vision
Not one child (Age 0-18 years) on this planet should be prevented from getting an education because his/her family cannot afford a simple pair of prescription glasses.
Mission
Our mission is to provide “Clear Vision” affordably for children with greatest need.
Sandhiprakash (Sandhi) is the CEO of Balak Drishti™ (Child Vision) whose mission is to provide “Clear Vision” affordably for children with greatest need by providing good quality, durable, and attractive pediatric prescription glasses at a cost of ~$10, within 10-15 minutes of their examination for children of the financially challenged families in the developing countries. For this startup, he was the Judges’ award winner for Duck Tank; a winner for the Innovating Children’s Health Challenge by Center for Advancing Innovation; the Best Overall Pitch and People’s Choice Award winner for RAIN’s MONEYmaker Accelerator 2022; and Early Stage Finalist for TiE’s Pitch Oregon 2023.
In addition, Sandhi is a cofounder, investor, and board director of FleetNurse, Inc. and has been instrumental in its launch since its very inception in May 2018. In addition, Sandhi is a cofounder, investor, and board director of FleetNurse, Inc. and has been instrumental in its launch since its very inception in May 2018. Besides this assignment, Sandhi served as the Director of Oregon Executive MBA Consulting Corps which helps local startups and non-profit organizations to launch new businesses.
He is the President of Anwaya Consulting LLC which provides strategic business and technology consulting for Digital Transformation, IOT and other high tech industry. Sandhi is an expert judge and member of the steering committee for the Edison Awards and Edison Universe responsible for recognizing outstanding innovations around the world. In 2020, Sandhi was the interim-CEO of a stealth bio startup that dealt with SARS-CoV-2 detection and mitigation. He also serves as a technical advisor to several companies and is active in the startup world.
Prior to that Sandhi worked at Intel for 20+ years in many leadership positions and was the Senior Director of Innovation/CTO/GM of a CEO-funded IOT platform startup called Light Lake at Intel. He is an inventor of world’s first true smart light bulb based and coined the term “End Node” Computing (sensors, compute, communication, management, and security capabilities – all in one end node ) and has many patents to his name. He has 40+ years of experience in high tech and is recognized as an innovator/visionary in leading the development, implementation of new products, services, and business innovations. His current focus areas are healthcare services, IOT, Smart Objects, ambient computing, smart/advanced sensors, and developing technology for most common problems facing the mankind, related to clean energy, clean water, pollution, food, health, blindness, and education.
Sandhi has a BE in Electronics and Telecommunication from the University of Pune, India , MS in Computer Science from the University of Wyoming, and an Executive MBA from the University of Oregon. He is a sought out speaker at many conferences worldwide. He is a founder, coordinator, singer of a Bollywood Music Charity Group which has raised over $500,000+ over the last eleven years for the Seva Foundation (Berkeley, CA) to help restore eyesight to thousands of blind, visually impaired, and financially disadvantaged pediatric patients in rural India. Sandhi is an avid hiker, photographer, story writer, amateur astronomer and loves to travel around the world. Sandhi and his wife Anjali have lived in Beaverton since 1984 and are blessed with a handsome son and a beautiful daughter.
Prior Experience
Sandhi is also a co-founder and a singer of a charity music group "Soor Aur Saptak" which over the last 12 years has worked with Seva Foundation, Berkeley, CA and has raised $500K supporting following hospitals in India. Over these 12 years, Sandhi developed a deep experience working for the cause of blind children in India and understanding their issues at the ground level faced by these children.
Note: Soor Aur Saptak and Balak Drishti™ are separate legal entities.
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Two part solution consists of:
