Dhrishta Educational & Research Foundation
A Section-8 educational foundation advancing education, healthcare and research across Chennai & Chittoor. Registered Section-8 non-profit — CIN U85500TN2025NPL178933, Licence 166663, 80G-eligible.
About us
A foundation built to make learning visible.
Dhrishta — Sanskrit for vision — was established in 2025 as a Section-8 non-profit, on a simple conviction: knowledge is the one light that reaches the world’s quietest corners.
It began with a single classroom.
We were born not from a mission statement, but from learners in front of us who deserved better — and a decision to come back the next week with a plan.
Chennai, and Chittoor.
Today we work from our head office in Palavakkam, Chennai and a centre in Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh — supporting 500+ students with 40+ teachers and mentors.
The mentors who carry the light.
A classroom without a trained teacher is just a room. We invest in the people who turn curiosity into capability, every single day.
We unlock full vessels.
We do not fill empty ones. Every programme exists to create the conditions for one thing — the first question a learner dares to ask out loud.
The story turns the page.
What follows are the chapters still being written — our programmes, our impact, and the people who make it real.
Programmes
- Knowledge Creation — We build the materials, curricula and learning spaces that make a classroom possible — designed with communities, not handed to them.
- Healthcare Innovation — Low-cost, evidence-based care where it is needed most — because a child who is unwell cannot learn.
- Applied Research — Research paired with the realities on the ground — turning ideas into tools teachers and students can actually use.
- Training Programs — We invest in the mentors who turn curiosity into capability — continuous development and one-to-one mentorship.
- Community Health — Outreach, wellbeing and yoga — keeping learners healthy, supported and able to stay in school.
Leadership
- Rukesh, Co-Founder & Director
- Rajesh, Co-Founder & Director
- Prof. K. Bhaskar Reddy, Dean, Apollo Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Madhusudhan
Our team
- Shaik Yunus Basha — Centre Manager (M.Sc Medical Pharmacology)
- A. Arun Raj — GDA Trainer (M.Sc Nursing)
- A. Manasavani — GDA Trainer (B.Sc Nursing)
- Y. Ramrajiv — MIS & IT (Degree)
- R. Mamatha — Counsellor (B.Com)
- P. Rasi — GDA Trainer (B.Sc Nursing)
- M. Harashitha — English & Soft Skills (B.Sc Computers)
- S. Chiranjeevi — PMO (Degree)
- H. Jayasree — GDA Trainer (B.Sc Nursing)
- Lahari — MIS & IT (B.Tech)
- B.S. Yamuna — English Faculty (B.Sc Computer Science, B.Ed)
- G. Sneha — GDA Trainer (B.Sc Nursing)
500+ Students supported · 40+ Teachers & mentors · 5 Focus areas · 2 Centres
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Contact
Head office: No.153, 3rd Link Road, Palkalai Nagar, Palavakkam, Chennai 600041 · Centre: Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh
+91 910 0044 339 · +91 70932 04757 · +91 74167 32244 · director@dhrishtafoundation.org
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