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VISION
25 Years of Gifting
Sight is what your eyes produces;
Vision is what your heart produces;
Never let what you see affect your vision.
25+ Years
Beginning in 1995 in Chitrakoot, Drishti has been relentlessly working with the aim of bringing a positive change and empowering visually impaired girls so that they can live an independent and respected life in the society.
Free Education
All the facilities at Drishti including residence, academics, study material are provided absolutely free of cost.
The mission of Drishti is upliftment of visually impaired girls from varied background and make sure that their financial background doesn't become roadblock and hinder their goals and prospects for the better future.
200+ Girls
Educated and affected the lives for the better of 200+ visually impaired girls in the rural and less approachable area of Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh
5 Programs
Under flagship of Drishti, 5 significant programs with a mission of holistic, social and cognitive development along with the well being of students are currently going on.
Programs @ Drishti
Holistic Development @ Drishti
VOCATIONAL TRAINING
At Drishti, girls from a very early age undergo prevocational training to get a head start in life. Here, this training is considered as important, if not more, as any other academic subject taught. For this training, Drishti has a dedicated center which is located in the Drishti campus itself. During the training, girls are taught how to identify currency notes and coins and are also taught how to estimate the measurement of various kinds of objects.
The training is especially very effective for those students who do not take much interest in reading or academic subjects or who started attending school at a much older age.
By connecting small businesses with education, we are trying to ensure that as soon as our visually impaired girls leave Drishti, they are capable of earning their own income and are independent from the start itself.
A simulated shop is setup in the campus to provide hands on learning to our students.
BRAILLE EQUIPMENT BANK
To make the lives of the visually impaired people easier, a lot of inventions have been made. Such tools are used for both educational purposes and for daily living lifestyle here.
During the time when Drishti was established in 1995, the visually impaired people in the district were not aware of the existence of such tools. Hence, a braille equipment bank was established by the organization to make such tools available for the visually impaired people in the area. From this bank, people can buy these tools solely at their cost price.
At present, visually impaired people from Chitrakoot district and neighboring areas come to take these tools from the bank. Seeing the importance of these tools and the magnitude of improvement they bring to the lives of the visually impaired, Drishti also gives these for free to the people who do not come from a very financially stable background.
This facility has been successfully provided continuously by the organization for the past 25 years.
ADVOCACY CELL
To spread awareness among visually impaired population about the various opportunities, provisions, policies and subsidies provided by the government of India, Drishti established an advocacy cell, in the year 1995, in their campus.
Under this program, the beneficiaries are informed about their legal rights and several facilities which the government provides for them through the medium of workshops and seminars with legal experts.
During seminars and the workshops, all the queries and concerns are answered. Till now thousands of visually impaired people have benefited through this program
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Our Founder
Shri Shankar Lal Gupta Ji was born on 30 July 1957 as a sighted child. At merely 6 months he got affected by smallpox. Due to the lack of proper treatment of this disease, the side-effects reached his eye, which resulted in him losing his complete vision in a span of few years. Even though his parents were extremely disappointed, it did not affect his determination and vision. After finishing high school, he went on to pursue his further studies in Indore where he completed his M.A. He considers this to be the turning point in his life. He then went on to pursue office management in Delhi, where he successfully passed his S.S.C exam, getting recruited by a telecommunication company in Ghaziabad. After a lot of hard work, he was able to bring prosperity to his family and providing them with a stable financial base. Along this time, he also married his wife and became the father of 2 sighted healthy sons. Despite achieving so much, he still felt a void in his heart. He always had a dream and a goal to work for visually impaired people and become a companion in their struggle. In 1994, he was transferred to his home district Chitrakoot. After coming to Chitrakoot, he felt the urgent need for helping the visually impaired people, and hence proposed his idea in front of his close relatives and asked for their cooperation. After listening to his idea, everyone unanimously agreed on building an institution in the Chitrakoot district. At that time, visually impaired people were looked upon as a curse from God and their opinions did not matter in society. Most of them only received homage till their parents were alive, and later were thrown out of the house to beg for their living. Instead of dehumanizing them, Shankar Lal Ji recognized their strength. He believed that they just had to be taught how to pave their path, and then paving their path to success will be their responsibility.
Shri Shankar Lal Gupta
LIGHT BEYOND VISION
On the occasion of silver Jubilee celebration, Drishti published first-edition of their magazine. Check out the magazine now by clicking the button below!
