For most 15 year olds, a typical afternoon revolves around hanging out with friends, video games, or tv but one Irvine teen has taken his free time and put it to an amazing use. Yash Gupta is the founder of Sight Learning and is one of the newest recipients of the Huggable Heros awards given out by the Build-A-Bear Workshop. In 2011, this incredible young man took it upon himself to begin collecting eyeware for those less fortunate and in only a year, he has collected over $70,000 in glasses. He spends 25 hours a week at least just setting up collection points at local optometrists, collecting the glasses left there, and redistributing them to the needy.
Gupta has even hosted two international clinics, one in Tiauna, Mexica and the other in Copan, Honduras, where he assisted over 5,000 people by providing them with much needed eyeware.
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