Radhika: 250 million children have Vitamin A deficiency and can become permanently blind. One million children go blind every year due to this reason. These children survive on a handful of rice and have seen never milk, eggs, and butter. We give Vitamin A to malnourished children in India, Kenya, Nigeria, and the Dominican Republic. We simultaneously implement a holistic program of health education, promoting breastfeeding, deworming, dispelling harmful myths. We are now also working on COVID relief.
Mike: It’s great to be here with you Spiffy! At Genomenon, we’re changing the world of precision medicine by using AI (artificial intelligence) to organize the world’s genomic knowledge to help doctors diagnose and treat babies born with rare diseases, and help researchers develop drugs to treat these rare diseases.
Richa: The pleasure’s all mine. Our challenge is that governments of developing countries lack the area expertise to equip children in public schools with the necessary skills to cope with the stress that accompanies poverty. Thus, these children experience inattentiveness, powerlessness, shame, anger, etc. which stops them from becoming healthy lifelong learners. With 236 million children enrolled in the public schools of India itself, most living on less than $2 a day, there is an urgent need to reimagine the types of skills our most vulnerable children need.
