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You Know what! My mom says at times one just needs to figure out what one cares about the most in life, and then keep focusing on that to actually make a difference.
Today I am going to tell you about Yash Gupta. Yash use to wear glasses just like me. He was fourteen when while playing Taekwondo one day his glasses got smashed.
He had to wait for many days for the new pair to arrive but in these days, he realized that how dependent he was on them His world suddenly became blurry. He had a hard time seeing the blackboard in school and trouble keeping up with his work.
Getting them back, he took a sigh of relief but he also wondered that what it was to live without glasses if you medically needed one.
He did some research on the internet and he was shocked to find out that over thirteen million kids in the world didn’t have money to buy glasses. He also discovered that millions of people threw away their old glasses when they got new prescriptions.
And this gave him an idea!
He came up with a plan to create sight learning, which is a Nonprofit organization that collects and distributes eye glasses to student in need around the world.
Because he understood the fact that a good eyesight can play an important role in one’s education.
He along with his father contacted the local eye doctors and asked if he could leave boxes at their front desk, so that people could donate their old glasses. And then there was no looking back. Since 2010, Sight Learning has collected and distributed over sixteen million dollars’ worth of eye glasses throughout the world.
What a brilliant idea! Right! And what a heartwarming story.
Have you ever wondered what is it that you care about the most?
Well I am going to take a leave with this, here is Ron signing off see you next week with another beautiful story from around the world right here on What Ron reads.
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