This past year the MiNDS program had the good fortune to have Dr Pawan Sinha visit. In addition to giving two wonderful talks Dr Sinha inspired us with his humanitarian work leading Project Prakash. ‘Prakash’ in Sanskrit means light. The goal of Project Prakash is to bring light into the lives of curably blind children and, in so doing, illuminate some of the most fundamental scientific questions about how the brain develops and learns to see.
This picture is of a group of children at Project Prakash during a day of art, something that the children had been deprived of while blind.
"It is truly wonderful to witness and be a part of this transformation in the abilities and attitudes of the children." Pawan Sinha, 2012