Restoring Lives by Reaching the Unreached
Akhand Jyoti USA is a registered 501(c) (3) nonprofit Organization, committed to o serving vulnerable populations in low-income regions. We focus on restoring sight, reducing poverty, empowering girls through education and skills, and cultivating women as change-makers in society
To eliminate blindness from low-income regions like Bihar, India increases in surgical capacity is crucial to improve coverage and reduce preventable blindness. With limited healthcare infrastructure and a high demand for treatment, increasing the number of specialized facilities and trained surgeons will ensure timely care, especially in underserved rural areas. This expansion will help more people access the surgeries they need, improving eye health across the state. Furthermore, our goal to expand the Optometrist workforce through the 'Football to Eyeball' program is essential to advancing the blindness elimination initiative.
By year 2030
12 million Eyes screened (additionally)
2 million sight restoration surgeries for the blind
1500 girls trained as Optometrist to drive the blindness elimination program
Our Inspiration
Pandit Ramesh Chandra Shukla - Social Reformer & Founding Chairman Trustee - devoted his entire life to social reforms, especially for women empowerment and the upliftment of the downtrodden.
Our Mission
Aims to provide 2 million sight-restoring eye surgeries and primary care to 12 million of the poorest sections and engage and empower 1500 girls from these regions by 2030.
Our Vision
To help eliminate curable blindness and visual impairment by providing affordable and accessible eye health services to low-income regions while empowering women to achieve this.
Akhand Jyoti’s Foundational Pillars
Blindness Elimination
We will always be in the business of restoring sights of the underprivileged visually impaired patients.
Women Empowerment
We will always work to support the rural underprivileged girls and women and help them with equal opportunity.
Low-income Geographies
Akhand Jyoti US will continue to work only in low-income geographies to support the most deprived people.
Programs we support
People Behind the Ground-breaking Work
The Akhand Jyoti US team comprises people from diverse industries and backgrounds who have come together to make a unified effort to create substantial and long-lasting social impact in low-income geographies in India.
Akhand Jyoti US is fortunate to have some of the brightest minds from both the corporate and non-profit worlds working towards the common goal of making the world a better place by restoring the lives of the poor and helpless.
Meet the team that is making a difference in the lives of the helpless.
ASHOK DESAI , President
Ashok Desai is Chief Business Officer and Founder of Zymr Inc., a product engineering services company.
Ashok is a serial entrepreneur and a veteran in enterprise systems and solutions. He has developed and managed businesses exceeding $100 million for global multinationals, including Silicon Graphics, Oracle, Sasken Communications Technology, and Symphony Teleca.
He started the SGI Singapore Office and spent over 12 years spearheading their expansion into the burgeoning South Asian and Asia Pacific markets.
Ashok is a TiE Charter Member and also serves on the Regional Advisory Board at Chiratae Ventures, India’s largest homegrown venture fund.
His extensive background is complemented by an Executive M.B.A. from Stanford University and an M.S. in Physics from MS University Baroda. His strategic insights and leadership will enable Akhand Jyoti to achieve its long-term vision, drive strategy, manage fundraising, spearhead marketing, and manage overall program delivery.
Ashok lives with his family in the Bay Area, California, USA.
KRISHNA JHAVERI, Finance
Krishna Jhaveri is a co-founder and Managing Member of Silicon Valley Club, LLC(SVC), a real estate investment and development organization founded in 2006.
Before SVC, in 1989, Krishna co-founded Sasken Technologies Ltd., a company developing and licensing software IPs and providing software engineering services worldwide.
Krishna was President and executive director of Sasken North America until 2007 and then remained on the board of Sasken until 2019.
Krishna also co-founded Frontline Design Automation Systems in 1993, a company developing and licensing cutting-edge Electronic Design Automation software tools.
Frontline was acquired by Avant Corporation in 1996. Between 1983 and 1991 Krishna was a senior manufacturing engineer at Intel Corporation.
Krishna holds a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the M S University of Baroda, India.
To connect to the team directly, you may kindly drop an email to info@akhandjyoti.us
Our Partners
We partner with the most trusted nonprofit organizations so that 100% of your support goes to the beneficiaries directly. Our existing partner in India - Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospital, unit of Yugrishi Shriram Sharma Acharya Charitable Trust is registered as a trust in India.
Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospital works towards eliminating curable blindness from low-income geographies and empowers women to do this. They have 6 eye hospitals and 34 Vision Centres with 880+ beds network in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh - the two most deperate states in India. Doing over 93,000 eye surgeries annually, Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospital stands as the largest super speciality eye hopsital network in Eastern India.
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