"Ek Kadam Aur" means One Step Forward... Did you know there are approximately 1.4 million blind children in the world who do not go to school due to poverty or the lack of teachers? The model to be presented has potential to address this issue. Key points - Why are blind children from more than 150 countries not getting education?
- Why do such children end up becoming beggars on the street
- How can these children grow up to become tax-paying citizens of the world?
- How can Rotary International make a positive contribution to this issue?
About Satish Satish is an R&D Scientist who significantly contributed to development of 15 new medicines which are marketed worldwide including the US. He was a Civil Servant (Reviewer) at US FDA and worked for industry (Pfizer, Baxter, Johnson & Johnson, Genentech, Novartis) thereafter. He received his BS, MS, and MPhil in Biology and Genetics from India, PhD from the University of Glasgow, UK, and MPH from Columbia in NYC. He is an alumnus of Harvard Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Medical College of Wisconsin. At Harvard (2022), he started a new program - Sunrise (Arunodaya) for the Blind in which children get education for one year at their homes and transition to schools for sighted in their neighborhood. |
