Yash Gupta is a senior at Northwood High School in Irvine, CA. Being a student with glasses himself, he knew firsthand the effect that glasses can have, and how hard it is to learn without them. He figured that with more and more technology coming, it is important to have glasses to be able to learn in the classroom. He realized that many other students at his school must have had similar experiences, and then he thought about kids in inner cities. Many of them did not have health insurance, so he thought, how could they afford to get glasses for themselves?

With the economy at a low, it hit him that many people who needed glasses could not have them, and that was affecting their education as a result. He wanted to help people obtain eyeglasses, especially students of all ages, and so he formed sightlearning.com, a company designed to give sight while promoting education. He thought of this idea in November of 2010, and after working for long hours on a website, he launched Sight Learning in January of 2011.

Now going strong for more than two years, Sight Learning has impacted thousands of young students around the world, donating over $425,000 worth of eyeglasses and organizing several eye-clinics in various nations.

Gupta has been recognized as a CNN Hero and has won the Presidential Volunteer Service Award.

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