Meet the Founder

Dr. Shibal Bhartiya is a glaucoma specialist and clinician–leader with over two decades of experience across clinical care, academic medicine, and health systems leadership. She currently serves as Clinical Director of Ophthalmology at Marengo Asia Hospitals, Gurgaon, and leads community outreach and wellness programs across Gurgaon and Faridabad. She is also Program Director at the Marengo Asia Institute of Neurosciences and Spine, working pan-India on integrated, cross-disciplinary care models.

Her professional journey has included leadership roles across private healthcare, academic institutions, and international collaborations, with work spanning India, Europe, and the United States. She has contributed extensively to medical literature and education, serving as Editor-in-Chief of international ophthalmology journals and authoring textbooks and peer-reviewed research. These roles reflect a long-standing commitment to building knowledge systems—not just individual expertise.

Yet, the work she considers most meaningful lies beyond hospital corridors.

Vision Unlimited was born from a simple but unsettling observation: that for many children, especially those growing up in urban poverty, the absence of safe, stable after-school spaces quietly determines the limits of their future. Education fractures early—not because of lack of intelligence or effort, but because safety, adult supervision, nutrition, and continuity are missing where they matter most.

At Vision Unlimited’s after-school clubs in the urban slums of Gurgaon, children find something many have never consistently had before: a protected space to learn, be seen, receive care, and return to every day. What began as a modest intervention has evolved into a structured ecosystem of education, childcare, and support—designed not as charity, but as infrastructure.

Dr. Bhartiya’s belief in this work is deeply personal. Raising her son as a single parent sharpened her understanding of how profoundly consistent care, encouragement, and adult presence shape outcomes. Today, as a young entrepreneur, he represents not exceptional privilege, but what becomes possible when potential is met with support over time.

Vision Unlimited exists to replicate that principle at scale.

We do not position children as beneficiaries of goodwill, but as holders of possibility whose trajectories are shaped—early and often invisibly—by systems around them. Our work focuses on education and care as foundations, with health and vision serving as supporting signals rather than endpoints.

We exist because talent is universal, but opportunity is not.
And because futures should not be determined by the accident of birth.