1. In Dec 2016-Jan. 2017: Om and Atman personally screened seventy 6th and 7th graders in the GHPS School, Seegehalli, Bengaluru, India and identified 13 kids with correctable refractive errors. They gave their spare frames and bought prescription lenses for 2 girls using the $20 gift they had received from relatives. Leaving behind 11 kids who badly needed glasses because of lack of funds made them very sad.
2. In January 2017, when they returned to Edina, Om approached his school counselors, teachers and Youth-Serving-Youth organization to guide them on starting a non-profit organization to collect eye glasses and donations, and they soon shaped as Omnisight International.
3. In April 2017, Mayor Hovland, recognized their effort and humbled Om with the Mayor's Commendation Award. The brothers immediately started collecting funds and used eye glasses by placing the collection receptacles in Edina Eye Physicians, Owl Optical, Insight Vision Care and Edina Public Schools.
4. So far they have raised over $3000 through individual donations and fund raisers and have collected over 500 pairs of eye glasses. The generosity of Minnesotans is critical to Omnisight’s vision.
5. November 2017 issue of Edina Magazine featured Om and Atman.
6. In January 2018 they visited India and this time screened over 400 children in government schools in the GHPS School, Bengaluru and 2 schools in Shevgaon, Maharashtra State, providing frames and prescription glasses to all the children with correctable refractive errors.
7. They also collaborated with Dr. Randy Hurley and helped screen and provide glasses to an orphanage in Ilula, Tanzania.
8. They teamed up with Goodwill India who hold the world record for collecting and distributing the highest number of used clothes. This collaboration will help Omnisight International redistribute used glasses in India.
9. Atman and Om were invited to present to the Rotary Club of Edina, MN, which expanded Omnisight's donor base.
10. Year 2020, collection of used frames and donations continued however vision screening and establishment of new partnerships were halted by the COVID-19 pandemic as schools were closed worldwide.
11. August 2021, Atman established partnership with the Texas-based organization Together We See, founded by Soham Govande, creator of OcularCheck. A visual acuity app, OcularCheck helps expedite Omnisight's screening process in low-lit conditions and schools without electricity.
12. October 2021, Atman established partnership with Mr. Benjamin Taylor, President of Sanford International Clinics-Africa, Founder and CEO of MicroClinics International, to screen and distribute Omnisight's glasses in Ghana.
13. In December 2022, Om and Atman partnered with Mann Deshi Foundation to create an eye clinic in Mhaswad, a rural town in India, that will serve nearly half a million people. They traveled to the site to train volunteers, coordinate with local organizations, and establish a long-term system to screen youth regularly. This is just the beginning—they planted the necessary roots to disseminate educational materials around the region and conduct research on the local lifestyle.
