Gift of Vision - Chaitime with Murali Krishnamurthy, Sankara Eye Foundation - July 28, 2013

In this Chaitime show we talk to Murali Krishnamurthy, Founder and Executive Chairman of Sankara Eye foundation, and celebrate with him Sankara’s great accomplishment of performing 1 million free eye surgeries in India. More than 40 million people in India suffer from some kind of blindness. Of those, 12 million are totally blind, which means 1/4th of the world’s blind population resides in India. These are incredibly large numbers. Urged by their uncle Late Sri. P. Balasubramaniam, who was a longtime friend and associate of the Sankara Movement, brothers, Murali and Sridharan initiated Sankara Eye Foundation in USA in the year 1998. Since then their progress has been phenomenal: from one eye hospital and 8,000 eye surgeries to 1 million free eye surgeries this year at nine state of the art hospitals all over India. Sankara Eye Foundation is entirely run by volunteers and works in multiple ways to make Sankara’s mission towards eradicating preventable blindness a reality. In this show we talk to Murali Krishnamurthy about Sankara Eye Foundation and its amazing journey. We discuss their vision of building 20 hospitals by 2020- Vision 20/20 by 2020- as well as the impact of grass root level movement to address a big problem. Murali Krishnamurthy is also an excellent singer. We will listen to some of his favorite songs in his own voice. Tune in to KZSU Stanford 90.1 FM on Sunday, July 28th at 3.00pm to get inspired and become part of a movement which is changing the world.