Who Are We, What Are We Doing

Dave Rottblatt and I first came to India in December of 2007 with a group of Stanford Graduate School of Business MBAs to learn about the healthcare infrastructure in India and specifically how non-profit organizations were existing in the space to meet the healthcare needs of Indians. We decided to return to India and work on the ground with one of the organizations we visited back in December. This organization, VisionSpring (formerly Scojo) has created a micro-franchise entreprenuership network of vision screeners and eyeglass salespeople in rural villages in India. Visit http://www.visionspring.com/ to find out more about the organization. Our mission: to help VisionSpring think about how to continue to make their business model more robust and sustainable by addressing key business challenges. This blog will not go into the details of our work with Scojo/VisionSpring. Instead we will instead share our travel experiences on this trip.