2. *
*Dr. Jordan Kassalow, co-founder and chairman of
VisionSpring,
*He is an optometrist and public health entrepreneur.
*He has more than 20 years of experience providing
eye care to the world’s poor
*His favourite quote “Life is a daring adventure or
nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
*Any place with majestic mountains and alpine
meadows are his favourite places because this is
where he feel most in his element.
3. *
*He introduced improved care for riverblindness
and founded the Global Health Policy Council
at the Council on Foreign Relations.
* Jordan is creating new markets and delivering
affordable glasses and other vision services and
products to the world’s poor.
*A little investment in a pair of glasses goes a
long way
*He sold 1,607,426 glasses since inception and
has doubled its sale each year
4. *
*He distributing donated, recycled glasses to the
developing world costs nearly three times as much as
providing access to new glasses
*Kassalow say” when the link between their vision and
their hand is broken, they just need a simple pair of
glasses, By providing that we can basically double the
length of their working lives “
5. *
*Jordan is creating new markets and delivering
affordable glasses and other vision services and
products to the world’s poor.
*Jordan has spent much of his career showing
the link between vision economic productivity
at the base of the pyramid.
*He introduced improve for river blindness and
founded the global Health Policy Council at the
Council at the Council on Foreign Relations
